Slip-Weakening Models of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake and Constraints on Stress Drop and Fracture Energy

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 171, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2555-2568

  Huang, Yihe ^a   Ampuero, Jean Paul ^a   Kanamori, Hiroo ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

dynamic rupture model; energy partitioning; fracture energy; stress drop; subduction wedge; Tohoku Oki earthquake

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; FRACTURE; FRACTURE ENERGY;

DYNAMIC RUPTURE MODELS; ENERGY PARTITIONING; STRESS DROP; SUBDUCTION WEDGE; TOHOKU-OKI EARTHQUAKES;

DROPS;

EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FRACTURE; GEODYNAMICS; SEISMIC DATA; SLIP; STRESS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

EID: 84920477051     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-013-0718-2     Document Type: Article

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