Study on the state of stress around earthquake swarm areas using P-wave polarity data: Nikko-Ashio and Teishi Knoll areas

Journal of Physics of the Earth

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 29-40

  Rocco, Guillermo F E ^a   Horiuchi, Shigeki ^a   Hasegawa, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE SWARM; EARTHQUAKE ZONE; MAGMATISM; P WAVE; P WAVE POLARITY; STRESS TENSOR; VOLCANISM;

JAPAN, HONSHU, IZU PENINSULA, ITO; JAPAN, HONSHU, TOCHIGI PREFECTURE, NIKKO-ASHIO;

EID: 0030670666     PISSN: 00223743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4294/jpe1952.45.29     Document Type: Article

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