Short-period source model of 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 1373-1393

  Kurahashi, Susumu ^a   Irikura, Kojiro ^a  

^a AICHI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND MOTIONS; HETEROGENEOUS MODELS; HETEROGENEOUS SOURCES; IBARAKI PREFECTURE; IMPULSIVE WAVES; SEMBLANCE ANALYSIS; STRESS PARAMETER; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKES; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WAVE PACKETS;

FAULTING;

EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; GROUND MOTION; SEISMOGRAM; STRONG MOTION; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

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

EID: 84877259473     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120157     Document Type: Article

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