Low coseismic shear stress on the Tohoku-Oki megathrust determined from laboratory experiments

Science

Volumn 342, Issue 6163, 2013, Pages 1211-1214

  Ujiie, Kohtaro ^a,b   Tanaka, Hanae ^a   Saito, Tsubasa ^a   Tsutsumi, Akito ^c   Mori, James J ^c   Kameda, Jun ^d   Brodsky, Emily E ^e   Chester, Frederick M ^f   Eguchi, Nobuhisa ^b   Toczko, Sean ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

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

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC PROCESS; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT SLIP; FRICTION; LABORATORY METHOD; PLATE BOUNDARY; SHEAR STRESS; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; THRUST; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

ARTICLE; DEGLOVING INJURY; EARTHQUAKE; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SHEAR STRESS; TSUNAMI;

JAPAN;

EID: 84889264933     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1243485     Document Type: Article

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