Precursory migration of anomalous seismic activity revealed by the pattern informatics method: A case study of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, Japan

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 2 B, 2013, Pages 1171-1180

  Kawamura, Masashi ^a   Wu, Yi Hsuan ^b   Kudo, Takeshi ^c   Chen, Chien Chih ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CHUBU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2011 TOHOKU EARTHQUAKES; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCIES; LARGE EARTHQUAKES; MIGRATION PATTERNS; SEISMIC ACTIVITY; SEISMICITY PATTERN; STATISTICAL FEATURES;

INFORMATION SCIENCE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SEISMICITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 84877266834     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120094     Document Type: Article

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