Spatial and temporal variations in coda attenuation associated with the 2011 Off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku, Japan (Mw 9) earthquake

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 2 B, 2013, Pages 1411-1428

  Padhy, Simanchal ^a,b   Takemura, Shunsuke ^a,c   Takemoto, Teito ^a   Maeda, Takuto ^a   Furumura, Takashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^c YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE LEVELS; ISOTROPIC SCATTERING; PACIFIC COASTS; SCATTERING PROPERTY; SMALL VARIATIONS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; STRESS CHANGES; STRESS-INDUCED;

DECAY (ORGANIC); FREQUENCY BANDS;

EARTHQUAKES;

AMPLITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; MICROCRACK; POSTSEISMIC PROCESS; S-WAVE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

JAPAN; PACIFIC COAST [JAPAN];

EID: 84877252407     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120026     Document Type: Article

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