Accelerating Creep in Northern Japan due to Erosion of Locked Asperities in the Decade Prior to the M9 Tohoku Earthquake


Eric Burton, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States, Kaj M Johnson, Indiana University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, United States, Paul Segall, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States and Camilla Cattania, Stanford University, Stanford, United States