Introduction to the Special Issue on the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami

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Research Article| May 01, 2013 Introduction to the Special Issue on the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami T. Lay; T. Lay Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, California 95064 Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Y. Fujii; Y. Fujii International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering Building Research Institute, 1 Tachihara, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305‐0802, Japan Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar E. Geist; E. Geist U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Rd., Menlo Park, California 94025 Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar K. Koketsu; K. Koketsu Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, 1‐1‐1, Yayoi, Bunkyo‐ku, Tokyo, 113‐0032 Japan Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar J. Rubinstein; J. Rubinstein U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Rd., Menlo Park, California 94025 Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar T. Sagiya; T. Sagiya Disaster Mitigation Research Center, Nagoya University, Furo‐cho, Chikusa‐ku, Nagoya 464‐8601, Japan Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar M. Simons M. Simons Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 252‐21 Pasadena, California 91125 Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Author and Article Information T. Lay Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, California 95064 Y. Fujii International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering Building Research Institute, 1 Tachihara, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305‐0802, Japan E. Geist U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Rd., Menlo Park, California 94025 K. Koketsu Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, 1‐1‐1, Yayoi, Bunkyo‐ku, Tokyo, 113‐0032 Japan J. Rubinstein U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Rd., Menlo Park, California 94025 T. Sagiya Disaster Mitigation Research Center, Nagoya University, Furo‐cho, Chikusa‐ku, Nagoya 464‐8601, Japan M. Simons Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 252‐21 Pasadena, California 91125 Publisher: Seismological Society of America First Online: 14 Jul 2017 Online ISSN: 1943-3573 Print ISSN: 0037-1106 Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2013) 103 (2B): 1165–1170. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120130001 Article history First Online: 14 Jul 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation T. Lay, Y. Fujii, E. Geist, K. Koketsu, J. Rubinstein, T. Sagiya, M. Simons; Introduction to the Special Issue on the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 2013;; 103 (2B): 1165–1170. doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120130001 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietyBulletin of the Seismological Society of America Search Advanced Search The 11 March 2011 Tohoku earthquake (05:46:24 UTC) involved a massive rupture of the plate‐boundary fault along which the Pacific plate thrusts under northeastern Honshu, Japan. It was the fourth‐largest recorded earthquake, with seismic‐moment estimates of 3–5×1022 N·m (Mw 9.0). The event produced widespread strong ground shaking in northern Honshu; in some locations ground accelerations exceeded ⁠. Rupture extended ∼200 km along dip, spanning the entire width of the seismogenic zone from the Japan trench to below the Honshu coastline, and the aftershock‐zone length extended ∼500 km along strike of the subduction zone. The average fault... You do not have access to this content, please speak to your institutional administrator if you feel you should have access.