Source characteristics of small to moderate earthquakes in the Kanto region, Japan: Application of a new definition of the S-wave time window length

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1284-1291

  Watanabe, Kazutoshi ^a   Sato, Haruo ^a   Kinoshita, Shigeo ^b   Ohtake, Masakazu ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; S WAVE; SOURCE PARAMETERS; TIME WINDOW LENGTH;

JAPAN, HONSHU, KANTO;

EID: 0030432977     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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