Strength characteristics of Japan Trench borehole samples in the high-slip region of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 412, Issue , 2015, Pages 35-41

  Ikari, Matt J ^a   Kameda, Jun ^b   Saffer, Demian M ^c   Kopf, Achim J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohesion; Friction; Japan Trench; JFAST; Megathrust; Tohoku earthquake

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; FRICTION; ROCKS; SILICA;

2011 TOHOKU EARTHQUAKES; 2011 TOHOKU-OKI EARTHQUAKES; COHESION; JFAST; MEGATHRUST; STRENGTH CHARACTERISTICS; SUBDUCTION MEGATHRUSTS; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKES;

FAULT SLIPS;

EID: 84920915361     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.12.014     Document Type: Article

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