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 …

Time and space distribution of coseismic slip of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake as inferred from tsunami waveform data

K Satake, Y Fujii, T Harada… - Bulletin of the …, 2013‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A multiple time window inversion of 53 high‐sampling tsunami waveforms on ocean‐bottom
pressure, Global Positioning System, coastal wave, and tide gauges shows a temporal and …

SRCMOD: An online database of finite‐fault rupture models

PM Mai, KKS Thingbaijam - Seismological Research …, 2014‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
This contribution to the Electronic Seismologist presents the online SRCMOD database of
finite-fault rupture models for past earthquakes, accessible at http://equake‑rc. info/srcmod …

The surge of great earthquakes from 2004 to 2014

T Lay - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2015‏ - Elsevier
During the decade from mid-2004 to mid-2014 18 great (M w≥ 8.0) earthquakes occurred
globally (∼ 1.8 per year), compared to 71 from 1900 to mid-2004 (∼ 0.68 per year), yielding …

Sources of shaking and flooding during the Tohoku-Oki earthquake: A mixture of rupture styles

S Wei, R Graves, D Helmberger, JP Avouac… - Earth and Planetary …, 2012‏ - Elsevier
Modeling strong ground motions from great subduction zone earthquakes is one of the great
challenges of computational seismology. To separate the rupture characteristics from …

Real‐time, reliable magnitudes for large earthquakes from 1 Hz GPS precise point positioning: The 2011 Tohoku‐Oki (Japan) earthquake

TJ Wright, N Houlié, M Hildyard… - Geophysical research …, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
The early warning issued after the onset of the Mw9. 0 Tohoku‐Oki earthquake significantly
underestimated its magnitude, saturating, 120 seconds after the earthquake began, at Mw8 …

Sensitivity of tsunami wave profiles and inundation simulations to earthquake slip and fault geometry for the 2011 Tohoku earthquake

K Goda, PM Mai, T Yasuda, N Mori - Earth, Planets and Space, 2014‏ - Springer
In this study, we develop stochastic random-field slip models for the 2011 Tohoku
earthquake and conduct a rigorous sensitivity analysis of tsunami hazards with respect to …

Rupture Model for the 29 July 2021 MW 8.2 Chignik, Alaska Earthquake Constrained by Seismic, Geodetic, and Tsunami Observations

L Ye, Y Bai, D Si, T Lay, KF Cheung… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
A great earthquake struck the Semidi segment of the plate boundary along the Alaska
Peninsula on 29 July 2021, re‐rupturing part of the 1938 rupture zone. The 2021 MW 8.2 …

Heterogeneous rupture in the great Cascadia earthquake of 1700 inferred from coastal subsidence estimates

PL Wang, SE Engelhart, K Wang… - Journal of …, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
Past earthquake rupture models used to explain paleoseismic estimates of coastal
subsidence during the great AD 1700 Cascadia earthquake have assumed a uniform slip …