Seafloor observations indicate spatial separation of coseismic and postseismic slips in the 2011 Tohoku earthquake.

ABSTRACT: Large interplate earthquakes are often followed by postseismic slip that is considered to occur in areas surrounding the coseismic ruptures. Such spatial separation is expected from the difference in frictional and material properties in and around the faults. However, even though the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake ruptured a vast area on the plate interface, the estimation of high-resolution slip is usually difficult because of the lack of seafloor geodetic data. Here using the seafloor and terrestrial geodetic data, we investigated the postseismic slip to examine whether it was spatially separated with the coseismic slip by applying a comprehensive finite-element method model to subtract the viscoelastic components from the observed postseismic displacements. The high-resolution co- and postseis

SUBMITTER: Iinuma T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5118554 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature