Morphological characteristics of the earthquake surface ruptures on Awaji Island, associated with the 1995 Southern Hyogo Prefecture Earthquake

Island Arc

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-15

  Lin, Aiming ^a,b   Uda, Shinichi ^a  

^a CTI Engineering Co Ltd No 9 Chuo Building ^*  (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Earthquake surface rupture; Extensional cracks; Kusumoto Earthquake Surface Rupture Zone; Matsuho Earthquake Surface Rupture Zone; Nojima Earthquake Surface Rupture Zone; Right lateral strike slip; Southern Hyogo Prefecture Earthquake

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE 1995; RUPTURE MECHANISM; SEISMICITY; SOUTHERN HYOGO EARTHQUAKE 1995; STRIKE SLIP FAULT; SURFACE RUPTURE;

JAPAN, AWAJI ISLAND;

EID: 0029775344     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.1996.tb00008.x     Document Type: Article

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