Structural analysis of coseismic normal fault zones of the 2011 Mw 6.6 Fukushima earthquake, northeast Japan

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 2 B, 2013, Pages 1603-1613

  Lin, Aiming ^a,b   Toda, Shinji ^b   Rao, Gang ^a   Tsuchihashi, Satoru ^a   Yan, Bing ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULTING; COSEISMIC SURFACE RUPTURE; FIELD INVESTIGATION; FINE-GRAINED MATERIAL; INTERCONNECTED NETWORK; NORMAL FAULT ZONES; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; SURFACE RUPTURES;

EARTHQUAKES; ROCKS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

FAULT SLIPS;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT GOUGE; FAULT ZONE; NORMAL FAULT; SHEAR ZONE;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 84877290705     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120111     Document Type: Article

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