Kinematic barrier constraints on the magnitudes of additional great earthquakes off the east coast of Japan

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 202-209

  Loveless, John P ^a   Meade, Brendan J ^b  

^a SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE;

JAPAN;

EID: 84922455012     PISSN: 08950695     EISSN: 19382057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0220140083     Document Type: Article

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