Rupture history of the 2011 M 9 Tohoku Japan earthquake determined from strong-motion and high-rate GPS recordings: Subevents radiating energy in different frequency bands

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 2 B, 2013, Pages 1290-1306

  Frankel, Arthur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2011 TOHOKU EARTHQUAKES; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; DYNAMIC TRIGGERING; FREQUENCY ENERGY; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INVERSION RESULTS; JAPAN EARTHQUAKES; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

EARTHQUAKES; FREQUENCY BANDS; TALL BUILDINGS;

FAULTING;

DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT; GPS; GROUND MOTION; SLIP; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TSUNAMI;

EID: 84877304943     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120148     Document Type: Article

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