Performance of uniform and heterogeneous slip distributions for the modeling of the November 2016 off Fukushima earthquake and tsunami, Japan

Abstract The M w 6.9 earthquake off Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, of 22 November 2016 was followed by a tsunami that struck the Japanese coast from Hokkaido in northern Japan to Wakayama Prefecture in western Japan. We compared the performance of a seismologically deduced single-fault model, a seismo...

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Main Authors: Kenji Nakata, Yutaka Hayashi, Hiroaki Tsushima, Kenichi Fujita, Yasuhiro Yoshida, Akio Katsumata
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-03-01
Series:Earth, Planets and Space
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40623-019-1010-1