Stress transferred by the 1995 Mw = 6.9 Kobe, Japan, shock: Effect on aftershocks and future earthquake probabilities

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 103, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 24543-24565

  Toda, Shinji ^a   Stein, Ross S ^b   Reasenberg, Paul A ^b   Dieterich, James H ^b   Yoshida, Akio ^c  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FAULT; KOBE EARTHQUAKE 1995; STRESS ANALYSIS;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KOBE;

EID: 0009489743     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98jb00765     Document Type: Article

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