A deep outer-rise reverse-fault earthquake immediately triggered a shallow normal-fault earthquake: The 7 December 2012 off-Sanriku earthquake (M W 7.3)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 4214-4219

  Harada, Tomoya ^a   Murotani, Satoko ^a   Satake, Kenji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

earthquake triggering; finite fault slip model; outer rise earthquake; static change in the x0394; CFF; teleseismic body wave analysis; the 2011 Tohoku earthquake

Indexed keywords

2011 TOHOKU EARTHQUAKES; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGERING; OUTER-RISE EARTHQUAKES; SLIP MODEL; TELESEISMIC;

FAULT SLIPS;

EARTHQUAKES;

BODY WAVE; COULOMB CRITERION; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; FAULT SLIP; NORMAL FAULT; REVERSE FAULT; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

HONSHU; IWATE; JAPAN; JAPAN TRENCH; PACIFIC OCEAN; SANRIKU; TOHOKU;

EID: 84882441923     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50808     Document Type: Article

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