Twin ruptures grew to build up the giant 2011 Tohoku, Japan, earthquake

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Maercklin, Nils ^a,b   Festa, Gaetano ^a   Colombelli, Simona ^a   Zollo, Aldo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b Ctro Regionale di Competenza Analisi e Monitoraggio del Rischio Ambientale of the Campania district   (Italy)

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EID: 84868296065     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00709     Document Type: Article

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