Upper-plate controls on co-seismic slip in the 2011 magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-oki earthquake

Dan Bassett (), David T. Sandwell, Yuri Fialko and Anthony B. Watts
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Dan Bassett: Scripps Institution of Oceanography
David T. Sandwell: Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Yuri Fialko: Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Anthony B. Watts: University of Oxford

Nature, 2016, vol. 531, issue 7592, 92-96

Abstract: Residual topography and gravity anomalies reveal a tectonic boundary in northeast Japan, which is proposed to represent the offshore continuation of the Median Tectonic Line; the contrast in frictional properties across this structure may control earthquake behaviour there, as recently demonstrated by the giant 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake.

Date: 2016
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