What controls the lateral variation of large earthquake occurrence along the Japan Trench?

Island Arc

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 261-266

  Tanioka, Yuichiro ^a,c   Ruff, Larry ^a   Satake, Kenji ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^c METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Earthquake occurrence; Japan Trench; Subduction zone

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

PACIFIC, JAPAN TRENCH;

EID: 0031428193     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.1997.tb00176.x     Document Type: Article

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