Small interseismic asperities and widespread aseismic creep on the northern Japan subduction interface

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 135-143

  Johnson, Kaj M ^a   Mavrommatis, Andreas ^b   Segall, Paul ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

afterslip; asperities

Indexed keywords

CREEP; EARTHQUAKES; LOCKS (FASTENERS); SLIP FORMING; STICK-SLIP; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

AFTERSLIP; ASPERITIES; CANONICAL MODELING; PLATE INTERFACES; STICK-SLIP BEHAVIOR; STRAIN ACCUMULATIONS; SUBDUCTION INTERFACE; TOHOKU-OKI EARTHQUAKES;

FAULTING;

ASPERITY; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CREEP; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GPS; INTERFACE; SOURCE PARAMETERS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STICK-SLIP; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

JAPAN;

EID: 84970891590     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL066707     Document Type: Article

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