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

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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)

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.

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  • Dan Bassett & David T. Sandwell & Yuri Fialko & Anthony B. Watts, 2016. "Upper-plate controls on co-seismic slip in the 2011 magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-oki earthquake," Nature, Nature, vol. 531(7592), pages 92-96, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:531:y:2016:i:7592:d:10.1038_nature16945
    DOI: 10.1038/nature16945
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