A very long-term transient event preceding the 2011 Tohoku earthquake

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Yokota, Yusuke ^a   Koketsu, Kazuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COULOMB CRITERION; GEODETIC NETWORK; GPS; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMIC SURVEY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

EARTHQUAKE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; JAPAN; MODEL; STRESS;

JAPAN;

EID: 84924947407     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6934     Document Type: Article

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