Aftershocks near the updip end of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 382, Issue , 2013, Pages 111-116

  Obana, Koichiro ^a   Kodaira, Shuichi ^a   Shinohara, Masanao ^b   Hino, Ryota ^c   Uehira, Kenji ^d,e   Shiobara, Hajime ^b   Nakahigashi, Kazuo ^b,f   Yamada, Tomoaki ^b   Sugioka, Hiroko ^a   Ito, Aki ^a   Nakamura, Yasuyuki ^a   Miura, Seiichi ^a   No, Tetsuo ^a   Takahashi, Narumi ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

^f KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

2011 Tohoku Oki earthquake; Japan Trench; Shallow megathrust; Stress state; Subduction zone

Indexed keywords

2-D VELOCITY MODELS; 2011 TOHOKU-OKI EARTHQUAKES; HYPOCENTER LOCATION; MEGATHRUST; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOGRAPHS; STRESS STATE; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TOHOKU-OKI EARTHQUAKES;

FAULTING;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULTING; FOCAL MECHANISM; SEISMICITY; SEISMOGRAPH; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

JAPAN TRENCH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84884928737     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.09.007     Document Type: Article

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