Low coseismic friction on the Tohoku-Oki fault determined from temperature measurements

Science

Volumn 342, Issue 6163, 2013, Pages 1214-1217

  Fulton, P M ^a   Brodsky, E E ^a   Kano, Y ^b   Mori, J ^b   Chester, F ^c   Ishikawa, T ^d   Harris, R N ^e   Lin, W ^d   Eguchi, N ^d   Toczko, S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^e OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT; FRICTION; MOMENT TENSOR; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PLATE BOUNDARY; SLIP RATE; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TRENCH;

ARTICLE; COSEISMIC FRICTION; DIFFUSION; DRILL; EARTHQUAKE; FAULT; FLOW RATE; FLUID FLOW; FRICTION; GEOLOGY; HEAT; HEATING; JAPAN; LOW TEMPERATURE; PERMEABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; SENSOR; SHEAR STRESS; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

JAPAN;

EID: 84889241886     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1243641     Document Type: Article

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