A small persistent locked area associated with the 2011 Mw9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake, deduced from GPS data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 117, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Ikuta, Ryoya ^a   Satomura, Mikio ^a   Fujita, Akio ^a   Shimada, Seiichi ^b   Ando, Masataka ^c  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC PROCESS; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT SLIP; GPS; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMIC WAVE; THRUST; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

JAPAN TRENCH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84870230219     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JB009335     Document Type: Article

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