Stochastic finite-fault simulations of the 2011 Tohoku, Japan, earthquake

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 2 B, 2013, Pages 1307-1320

  Ghofrani, Hadi ^a   Atkinson, Gail M ^a   Goda, Katsuichiro ^b   Assatourians, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2011 TOHOKU EARTHQUAKES; FINITE FAULT MODELING; HIGH FREQUENCY RESPONSE; LOW FREQUENCY RANGE; SIMPLE STOCHASTIC; SLIP DISTRIBUTION; SOURCE CHARACTERISTICS; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS;

FAULTING; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT; GROUND MOTION; STOCHASTICITY; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 84877311604     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120228     Document Type: Article

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