A scenario for the generation process of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake based on dynamic rupture simulation: Role of stress concentration and thermal fluid pressurization

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1177-1187

  Mitsui, Yuta ^a   Lio, Yoshihisa ^b   Fukahata, Yukitoshi ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

2011 tohoku earthquake; Moment rate function; Stress accumulation; Thermal fluid pressurization

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT PLANE; SEISMIC MOMENT; SHEAR STRESS; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 84876256437     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2012.05.016     Document Type: Article

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