Prevalence of viscoelastic relaxation after the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake

Tianhaozhe Sun, Kelin Wang (), Takeshi Iinuma, Ryota Hino, Jiangheng He, Hiromi Fujimoto, Motoyuki Kido, Yukihito Osada, Satoshi Miura, Yusaku Ohta and Yan Hu
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Tianhaozhe Sun: School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia V8P 5C2, Canada
Kelin Wang: School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia V8P 5C2, Canada
Takeshi Iinuma: International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-0845, Japan
Ryota Hino: International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-0845, Japan
Jiangheng He: Pacific Geoscience Centre, Geological Survey of Canada, Natural Resources Canada, 9860 West Saanich Road, Sidney, British Columbia V8L 4B2, Canada
Hiromi Fujimoto: International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-0845, Japan
Motoyuki Kido: International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-0845, Japan
Yukihito Osada: International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-0845, Japan
Satoshi Miura: Research Center for Prediction of Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
Yusaku Ohta: Research Center for Prediction of Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
Yan Hu: University of California, Berkeley, California, California 94720, USA

Nature, 2014, vol. 514, issue 7520, 84-87

Abstract: Seafloor Global Positioning System observations immediately after the great 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake provide unambiguous evidence for the dominant role of viscoelastic relaxation in short-term postseismic deformation, rather than just afterslip on the fault as is commonly assumed.

Date: 2014
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