Seismic- and Tsunami-wave propagation of the 2011 Off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku earthquake as inferred from the Tsunami-coupled finite-difference simulation

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 2 B, 2013, Pages 1456-1472

  Maeda, Takuto ^a   Furumura, Takashi ^a   Noguchi, Shinako ^b   Takemura, Shunsuke ^a,d   Sakai, Shin'ichi ^a   Shinohara, Masanao ^a   Iwai, Kazuhisa ^a   Lee, Shiann Jong ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^d YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2011 OFF THE PACIFIC COAST OF TOHOKU EARTHQUAKES; 2011 TOHOKU EARTHQUAKES; COSEISMIC DEFORMATION; COUPLED NUMERICAL SIMULATION; FINITEDIFFERENCE METHODS (FDM); GEODETIC OBSERVATION; HETEROGENEOUS STRUCTURES; STRONG GROUND MOTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FAULTING; SEAWATER; SEISMIC WAVES; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TSUNAMIS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GROUND MOTION; MOHO; SEISMIC WAVE; STRONG MOTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TSUNAMI; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

JAPAN; PACIFIC COAST [JAPAN];

EID: 84877285376     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120118     Document Type: Article

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