Early magnitude and potential damage zone estimates for the great Mw 9 Tohoku-Oki earthquake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 22, 2012, Pages

  Colombelli, Simona ^a   Zollo, Aldo ^a   Festa, Gaetano ^a   Kanamori, Hiroo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SEISMIC WAVES;

COMBINED EFFECT; DAMAGE AREA; DAMAGE ZONES; DISTANCE RANGES; EARLY WARNING; EARTHQUAKE EARLY WARNING; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; HIGH-PASS FILTERING; PEAK GROUND DISPLACEMENT; PREDOMINANT PERIOD; RADIATING SOURCES; REGRESSION RELATIONSHIP; RUPTURE PROCESS; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; TIME WINDOWS;

EARTHQUAKES;

DATA SET; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; P-WAVE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATURATION; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

JAPAN;

EID: 84870598872     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053923     Document Type: Article

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