Two-dimensional viscosity structure of the northeastern Japan islands arc-trench system

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 4604-4608

  Muto, Jun ^a   Shibazaki, Bunichiro ^b   Ito, Yoshihiro ^a,c   Iinuma, Takeshi ^a   Ohzono, Mako ^d,e   Matsumoto, Takumi ^f   Okada, Tomomi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b BUILDING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

Author keywords

postseismic deformation; Tohoku Oki earthquake

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKES;

2011 TOHOKU-OKI EARTHQUAKES; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENTS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; POSTSEISMIC DEFORMATION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS; STRUCTURAL HETEROGENEITY; TOHOKU-OKI EARTHQUAKES; VISCOELASTIC RELAXATION;

VISCOSITY;

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TRENCH; VISCOSITY;

JAPAN;

EID: 84883686557     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50906     Document Type: Article

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