Moment tensors for rapid characterization of megathrust earthquakes: The example of the 2011 M9 Tohoku-oki, Japan earthquake

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 192, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 759-772

  Guilhem, Aurélie ^a,b   Dreger, Douglas S ^a   Tsuruoka, Hiroshi ^c   Kawakatsu, Hitoshi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Early warning.; Earthquake source observations; Seismic monitoring and test ban treaty verification

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; TSUNAMIS;

AUTOMATED SCANNING; EARLY WARNING; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE OBSERVATIONS; GEOPHYSICAL OBSERVATIONS; MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKES; SEISMIC MONITORING AND TEST-BAN TREATY VERIFICATIONS; SINGLE POINT SOURCE; TOHOKU-OKI EARTHQUAKES;

TENSORS;

ALGORITHM; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GREEN FUNCTION; MOMENT TENSOR; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOGRAM; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TSUNAMI; VIBRATION;

JAPAN;

EID: 84876848269     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggs045     Document Type: Article

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