Response of seismicity to static and dynamic stress changes induced by the 2011 M9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 3572-3578

  Kato, Aitaro ^a   Fukuda, Jun'Ichi ^a   Obara, Kazushige ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

preparedness for failure in earthquake patches; response of seismicity; static and dynamic stress changes; the 2011 M9.0 Tohoku Oki earthquake; the matched filter technique

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC STRESS; FILTER TECHNIQUES; PREPAREDNESS FOR FAILURE IN EARTHQUAKE PATCHES; RESPONSE OF SEISMICITY; TOHOKU-OKI EARTHQUAKES;

MATCHED FILTERS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; FILTER; INDUCED SEISMICITY; NUCLEATION; SEISMIC RESPONSE; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

HIDA MOUNTAINS; HONSHU; JAPAN;

EID: 84880221251     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50699     Document Type: Article

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