Interplate coupling off northeastern Japan before the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake, inferred from seafloor geodetic data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 118, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3860-3869

  Sato, Mariko ^a   Fujita, Masayuki ^a   Matsumoto, Yoshihiro ^a   Ishikawa, Tadashi ^a   Saito, Hiroaki ^a   Mochizuki, Masashi ^b   Asada, Akira ^b  

^a JAPAN COAST GUARD ACADEMY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

GPS acoustic; interplate coupling; Miyagi; northeastern Japan; seafloor geodesy

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; COSEISMIC PROCESS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GEODESY; GPS; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; SEAFLOOR; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; MIYAGI; TOHOKU;

EID: 84882769564     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrb.50275     Document Type: Article

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