Effect of the largest foreshock (Mw 7.3) on triggering the 2011 Tohoku earthquake (Mw 9.0)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 497-500

  Gusman, Aditya Riadi ^a   Fukuoka, Mitsuteru ^a   Tanioka, Yuichiro ^a   Sakai, Shin'Ichi ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coulomb stress change; foreshock; slip distribution; tsunami waveforms

Indexed keywords

TSUNAMIS;

2011 TOHOKU EARTHQUAKES; COULOMB STRESS CHANGES; DYNAMIC RUPTURES; FORESHOCK; PLATE INTERFACES; SLIP DISTRIBUTION; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

EARTHQUAKES;

COULOMB CRITERION; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; FORESHOCK; RUPTURE; SEISMIC MOMENT; SLIP; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84878166356     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50153     Document Type: Article

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