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Twin ruptures grew to build up the giant 2011 Tohoku, Japan, earthquake

The 2011 Tohoku megathrust earthquake had an unexpected size for the region. To image the earthquake rupture in detail, we applied a novel backprojection technique to waveforms from local accelerometer networks. The earthquake began as a small-size twin rupture, slowly propagating mainly updip and t...

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Autores principales: Maercklin, Nils, Festa, Gaetano, Colombelli, Simona, Zollo, Aldo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3464439/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23050093
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep00709