A review of the rupture characteristics of the 2011 Tohoku-oki Mw 9.1 earthquake

T Lay - Tectonophysics, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The 2011 March 11 Tohoku-oki great (Mw 9.1) earthquake ruptured the plate
boundary megathrust fault offshore of northern Honshu with estimates of shallow slip of 50 m …

A decade of lessons learned from the 2011 Tohoku‐Oki earthquake

N Uchida, R Bürgmann - Reviews of Geophysics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku‐oki earthquake is one of the world's best‐recorded
ruptures. In the aftermath of this devastating event, it is important to learn from the complete …

Detection of repeating earthquakes and their application in characterizing slow fault slip

N Uchida - Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 2019 - Springer
Repeating earthquakes (repeaters) that rupture the same fault area (patch) are interpreted to
be caused by repeated accumulation and release of stress on the seismic patch in a …

A review of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake (Mw 9.0): Large-scale rupture across heterogeneous plate coupling

F Tajima, J Mori, BLN Kennett - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
The 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake ruptured a large source region, which included areas with
a range of past M 7 to M 8 earthquakes, varying stress accumulation, and different structural …

Changes in seismic activity following the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake: effects of pore fluid pressure

T Terakawa, C Hashimoto, M Matsu'ura - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
We examined the effects of pore fluid pressure on seismicity changes following the 2011 off
the Pacific coast of Tohoku (Tohoku-oki) earthquake through the analysis of aftershocks …

Slow earthquakes illuminating interplate coupling heterogeneities in subduction zones

S Baba, S Takemura, K Obara… - Geophysical Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Slow earthquakes are mainly distributed in the vicinity of seismogenic zones of megathrust
earthquakes and relationships between both types of earthquakes are expected. We …

Energy‐based scenarios for great thrust‐type earthquakes in the Nankai trough subduction zone, southwest Japan, using an interseismic slip‐deficit model

A Noda, T Saito, E Fukuyama… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We propose a new energy‐based method to construct rupture scenarios for anticipated
megathrust earthquakes by using an interseismic slip‐deficit model. Our method bridges the …

The coseismic slip distribution of a shallow subduction fault constrained by prior information: the example of 2011 Tohoku (Mw 9.0) megathrust earthquake

X Zhou, G Cambiotti, W Sun… - Geophysical Journal …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
In the literature, the inverted coseismic slip models from seismological and geodetic data for
the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake portray significant discrepancies, in particular regarding …

Emergence and disappearance of interplate repeating earthquakes following the 2011 M9.0 Tohoku‐oki earthquake: Slip behavior transition between seismic and …

N Hatakeyama, N Uchida, T Matsuzawa… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated spatiotemporal change in the interplate seismic activity following the 2011
Tohoku‐oki earthquake (M9. 0) in the region where interseismic interplate coupling was …

Mechanically coupled areas on the plate interface in the Nankai Trough, Japan and a possible seismic and aseismic rupture scenario for megathrust earthquakes

T Saito, A Noda - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Quantifying the stress distribution or finding mechanically coupled areas on the plate
interface is fundamentally important for conjecturing megathrust earthquakes that may occur …