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 …

GPS imaging of global vertical land motion for studies of sea level rise

WC Hammond, G Blewitt, C Kreemer… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We estimate the rates and patterns of vertical land motion (VLM) on all locations on Earth's
land surface using GPS Imaging. The solution is based on a large database of uniformly …

Dominant Controls of Downdip Afterslip and Viscous Relaxation on the Postseismic Displacements Following the Mw7.9 Gorkha, Nepal, Earthquake

B Zhao, R Bürgmann, D Wang, K Tan… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We analyze three‐dimensional GPS coordinate time series from continuously operating
stations in Nepal and South Tibet and calculate the initial 1 year postseismic displacements …

Resolving depth-dependent subduction zone viscosity and afterslip from postseismic displacements following the 2011 Tohoku-oki, Japan earthquake

AM Freed, A Hashima, TW Becker, DA Okaya… - Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
We developed a 3-D, viscoelastic finite element model of the M9 2011 Tohoku-oki, Japan
earthquake capable of predicting postseismic displacements due to viscoelastic relaxation …

Stress‐driven relaxation of heterogeneous upper mantle and time‐dependent afterslip following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake

Y Hu, R Bürgmann, N Uchida… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding of postseismic deformation following great subduction zone earthquakes is
complicated by the combined effects of viscoelastic relaxation of earthquake‐induced …

Millenary Mw > 9.0 earthquakes required by geodetic strain in the Himalaya

VL Stevens, JP Avouac - Geophysical Research Letters, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The Himalayan arc produced the largest known continental earthquake, the Mw≈ 8.7
Assam earthquake of 1950, but how frequently and where else in the Himalaya such large …

Afterslip and viscoelastic relaxation model inferred from the large-scale post-seismic deformation following the 2010 Mw 8.8 Maule earthquake (Chile)

E Klein, L Fleitout, C Vigny… - Geophysical Journal …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Megathrust earthquakes of magnitude close to 9 are followed by large-scale (thousands of
km) and long-lasting (decades), significant crustal and mantle deformation. This deformation …

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

T Iinuma, R Hino, N Uchida, W Nakamura… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
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 …

Rapid mantle flow with power-law creep explains deformation after the 2011 Tohoku mega-quake

R Agata, SD Barbot, K Fujita, M Hyodo, T Iinuma… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The deformation transient following large subduction zone earthquakes is thought to
originate from the interaction of viscoelastic flow in the asthenospheric mantle and slip on …