Are the frictional properties of creeping faults persistent? Evidence from rapid afterslip following the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 3613-3617

  Fukuda, Jun'Ichi ^a   Kato, Aitaro ^a   Kato, Naoyuki ^a   Aoki, Yosuke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

afterslip; fault frictional properties; GPS; inversion; the 2011 Tohoku oki earthquake

Indexed keywords

2011 TOHOKU-OKI EARTHQUAKES; AFTERSLIP; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FRICTIONAL PROPERTIES; GEOPHYSICAL OBSERVATIONS; INVERSION; RUPTURE PROPAGATION; TOHOKU-OKI EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKES; FRICTION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

FAULTING;

CREEP; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; SHEAR STRESS; SLIP RATE; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

JAPAN;

EID: 84880879240     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50713     Document Type: Article

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