Shear partitioning near the central Japan triple junction: The 1923 great Kanto earthquake revisited - I

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 871-881

  Lallemant, Siegfried J ^a   Le Pichon, Xavier ^a,b   Thoué, Frederic ^a,b   Henry, Pierre ^a   Saito, Saneatsu ^b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Earthquakes; Japan; Strike slip; Subduction

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; KANTO EARTHQUAKE 1923; OBLIQUE SUBDUCTION; PARTITIONING; S WAVE; STRIKE SLIP; STRIKE SLIP MOTION; TRANSFORM FAULT; TRANSFORM FAULTS;

PACIFIC, BOSO TRANSFORM FAULT; PACIFIC, SAGAMI TROUGH;

EID: 0030463646     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1996.tb04709.x     Document Type: Article

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