Changes in seismic activity following the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake: Effects of pore fluid pressure

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 365, Issue , 2013, Pages 17-24

  Terakawa, Toshiko ^a   Hashimoto, Chihiro ^a   Matsu'ura, Mitsuhiro ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

3 D Mohr diagram; Coulomb failure criterion; Fault strength; Focal mechanism; Pore fluid pressure; Tectonic stress

Indexed keywords

3-D MOHR DIAGRAM; COULOMB FAILURE CRITERIA; FAULT STRENGTH; FOCAL MECHANISM; PORE FLUID PRESSURE; TECTONIC STRESS;

FAILURE (MECHANICAL); FAULTING; STRESSES;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; COMPRESSION; COSEISMIC PROCESS; COULOMB CRITERION; FAULT; FLUID PRESSURE; FOCAL MECHANISM; MOHR THEORY; PORE PRESSURE; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; STRESS FIELD; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; UPPER CRUST;

HONSHU; JAPAN; PACIFIC COAST [JAPAN]; TOHOKU;

EID: 84873728024     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.01.017     Document Type: Article

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