A review of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake (Mw 9.0): Large-scale rupture across heterogeneous plate coupling

Tectonophysics

Volumn 586, Issue , 2013, Pages 15-34

  Tajima, Fumiko ^a   Mori, Jim ^b   Kennett, Brian L N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

2011 Mw 9 Tohoku Oki megathrust earthquake; Interlocking of heterogeneous plate coupling; Large slip near the trench; Separation of source areas of high and low frequency radiations; Variations of physical properties revealed in tomographic images

Indexed keywords

2011 TOHOKU-OKI EARTHQUAKES; ACCUMULATED STRAIN; COUPLING CONDITION; HIGH-FREQUENCY RADIATION; INITIAL ESTIMATE; LARGE AMPLITUDE; LARGE SLIP NEAR THE TRENCH; LOW-FREQUENCY; MEGATHRUST; MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKES; PACIFIC PLATES; REAL-TIME INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RUPTURE PROCESS; SOURCE AREA; SOURCE PROCESS; SOURCE REGION; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; VARYING STRESS;

PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); TOMOGRAPHY; TSUNAMIS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; STRAIN; SUBDUCTION; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

JAPAN;

EID: 84873567145     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.09.014     Document Type: Review

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