Envelope inversion analysis for high-frequency seismic energy radiation from the 2011 Mw 9.0 Off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku earthquake

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 2 B, 2013, Pages 1348-1359

  Nakahara, Hisashi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; HIGH-FREQUENCY RADIATION; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; INTRINSIC ABSORPTIONS; RUPTURE VELOCITIES; SCATTERING ATTENUATION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TOHOKU-OKI EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKES; FAULTING; SHEAR WAVES; VEHICLE ROUTING; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

RADIATION;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; GREEN FUNCTION; INVERSION TECTONICS; S-WAVE; SEISMOGRAM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRONG MOTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; IBARAKI; JAPAN; KANTO; PACIFIC COAST [JAPAN]; TOHOKU;

HELIOTHIS ZEA VIRUS 1;

EID: 84877247920     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120155     Document Type: Article

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