The 1995 Kobe earthquake and problems of evaluation of active faults in Japan

Engineering Geology

Volumn 43, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 151-167

  Toda, Shinji ^a   Hataya, Ryuta ^a   Abe, Shintaro ^a   Miyakoshi, Katsuyoshi ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; EVALUATION; EXCAVATION; GEOPHYSICS; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROTATION; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS;

BLOCK ROTATION MODEL; FAULT; FAULT DYNAMICS; KOBE EARTHQUAKE; MESOZOIC-CENOZOIC STRIKE SLIP; MOMENT RELEASE RATE; SLIP RATE; SURFACE RUPTURE; TECTONOPHYSICS;

ENGINEERING GEOLOGY;

ACTIVE FAULT; EARTHQUAKE HAZARD; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; KOBE EARTHQUAKE 1995; SEISMIC HAZARD;

JAPAN;

EID: 0030238359     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0013-7952(96)00057-9     Document Type: Article

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