Geodetic slip model of the 2011 M9.0 Tohoku earthquake
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Abstract
The three-dimensional crustal displacement field as sampled by GPS is used to determine the coseismic slip of the 2011 M9.0 Tohoku Earthquake. We employ a spherically layered Earth structure and use a combination of onland GPS, out to ∼4000 km from the rupture, and offshore GPS, which samples the high-slip region on the interplate boundary along the Japan trench. Inversion of the displacement field for dip slip, assuming an interplate boundary of variable dip and striking 195°, yields a compact slip maximum of about 33 m located 200 km east of Sendai. The geodetic moment is 4.06 × 1022 N m, corresponding to Mw = 9.0. The area of maximum slip is concentrated at a depth of about 10 km, is updip of the rupture areas of the M ≳ 7 Miyagi-oki earthquakes of 1933, 1936, 1937, and 1978, and roughly coincides with the rupture area of the M7.1 1981 Miyagi-oki earthquake. The overlap of the 2011 slip area with several preceding ruptures suggests that the same asperities may rupture repeatedly with M ≳ 7 events within several decades of one another.
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Publication type | Article |
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Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
Title | Geodetic slip model of the 2011 M9.0 Tohoku earthquake |
Series title | Geophysical Research Letters |
DOI | 10.1029/2011GL048632 |
Volume | 38 |
Issue | 7 |
Year Published | 2011 |
Language | English |
Publisher | American Geophysical Union |
Contributing office(s) | Earthquake Science Center |
Description | L00G08, 6 p. |
Country | Japan |
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