Resolution and uncertainties in estimates of earthquake stress drop and energy release

RE Abercrombie - … Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Our models and understanding of the dynamics of earthquake rupture are based largely on
estimates of earthquake source parameters, such as stress drop and radiated seismic …

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 …

Slow rupture in a fluid-rich fault zone initiated the 2024 Mw 7.5 Noto earthquake

Z Ma, H Zeng, H Luo, Z Liu, Y Jiang, Y Aoki, W Wang… - Science, 2024 - science.org
The 2024 moment magnitude 7.5 Noto Peninsula (Japan) earthquake caused devastation to
communities and was generated by a complex rupture process. Using space geodetic and …

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 …

Variability of earthquake stress drop in a subduction setting, the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand

RE Abercrombie, S Bannister, J Ristau… - Geophysical Journal …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We calculate stress drops for 176 earthquakes (M2. 6-M6. 6) from four sequences of
earthquakes in New Zealand. Two sequences are within the subducting Pacific plate …

New perspectives on self‐similarity for shallow thrust earthquakes

MA Denolle, PM Shearer - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Scaling of dynamic rupture processes from small to large earthquakes is critical to seismic
hazard assessment. Large subduction earthquakes are typically remote, and we mostly rely …

Large fault slip peaking at trench in the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake

T Sun, K Wang, T Fujiwara, S Kodaira, J He - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
During the 2011 magnitude 9 Tohoku-oki earthquake, very large slip occurred on the
shallowest part of the subduction megathrust. Quantitative information on the shallow slip is …

[HTML][HTML] Learning from crustal deformation associated with the M9 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake

K Wang, T Sun, L Brown, R Hino, F Tomita… - …, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Numerous observations pertaining to the magnitude 9.0 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake
(offshore Japan) have led to new understanding of subduction zone earthquakes. By …

A model of aftershock migration driven by afterslip

H Perfettini, WB Frank, D Marsan… - Geophysical Research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aftershocks region have been extensively reported to expand logarithmically with time. The
associated migration velocity is typically of the order of several km/decade but can be much …

A self‐consistent fault slip model for the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami

Y Yamazaki, KF Cheung, T Lay - Journal of Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The unprecedented geophysical and hydrographic data sets from the 2011 Tohoku
earthquake and tsunami have facilitated numerous modeling and inversion analyses for a …