Challenging the rate-state asperity model: Afterslip following the 2011 M9 Tohoku-oki, Japan, earthquake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 20, 2012, Pages

  Johnson, Kaj M ^a   Fukuda, Jun'Ichi ^b   Segall, Paul ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84868012341     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052901     Document Type: Article

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