Accelerated pacific plate subduction following interplate thrust earthquakes at the Japan trench

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 363, Issue , 2013, Pages 44-49

  Heki, Kosuke ^a   Mitsui, Yuta ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

2003 Tokachi Oki earthquake; 2011 Tohoku Oki earthquake; Acceleration; Earthquake triggering; GPS; Subduction

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE TRIGGERING; FORCE BALANCES; FULL COUPLING; HOKKAIDO; LARGE REGIONS; MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKES; OCEANIC PLATE; PACIFIC PLATES; SUBDUCTION; TEMPORARY ACTIVATION;

ACCELERATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

EARTHQUAKES;

GPS; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMICITY; SUBDUCTION; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

JAPAN TRENCH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84872579872     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.12.031     Document Type: Article

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