Modeling of the interaction between destructive inland earthquakes and large off coast earthquakes in central and south-west Japan

Engineering Geology

Volumn 43, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 169-176

  Matsuzaki, Mitsuhiro ^a   Kawakami, Shin Ichi ^b   Kanaori, Yuji ^b   Yairi, Kenji ^b  

^a Osaka College   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; FRACTALS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TECTONICS;

BLOCK ROTATION MODEL; HANAORE KONGO FAULT LINE; MOMENT RELEASE RATE; SEISMIC COUPLING; SEISMIC RISK; SPACE TIME PATTERN; STICK SLIP MODEL;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE HAZARD; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; PERIODICITY; SEISMIC HAZARD; STICK SLIP MODEL; STICK-SLIP MODEL;

JAPAN;

EID: 0030239422     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0013-7952(96)00058-0     Document Type: Article

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