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Upper-plate controls on co-seismic slip in the 2011 magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-oki earthquake
- Source :
- Nature; March 2016, Vol. 531 Issue: 7592 p92-96, 5p
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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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.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00280836 and 14764687
- Volume :
- 531
- Issue :
- 7592
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Nature
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- ejs38237075
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16945