A Global search for triggered tremor following the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku earthquake

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 2 B, 2013, Pages 1551-1571

  Chao, Kevin ^a,e   Peng, Zhigang ^a   Gonzalez Huizar, Hector ^b   Aiken, Chastity ^a   Enescu, Bogdan ^c,f   Kao, Honn ^d   Velasco, Aaron A ^b   Obara, Kazushige ^e   Matsuzawa, Takanori ^c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

^d Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRIVING FORCES; INCIDENCE ANGLES; MICRO-EARTHQUAKES; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; TECTONIC TREMORS; THRESHOLD AMPLITUDE; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKES;

RAYLEIGH WAVES; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; SURFACE WAVES;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; LOVE WAVE; MICROEARTHQUAKE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

ALASKA; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CALIFORNIA; CANADA; JAPAN; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; OREGON; SHIKOKU; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES; VANCOUVER ISLAND;

EID: 84876812970     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120171     Document Type: Article

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