Aseismic fault movement before the 1995 Kobe earthquake detected by a GPS survey: Implication for preseismic stress localization?

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 595-606

  Zhao, Shaorong ^a   Takemoto, Shuzo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coseismic process; Earthquake; Fault movement; Faulting; GPS; GPS survey; Honshu; Inversion; Japan; Kobe; Kobe earthquake 1995; Stress; Stress change

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC PROCESS; FAULTING; GPS; KOBE EARTHQUAKE 1995; STRESS;

JAPAN;

EID: 0032421473     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.1998.00630.x     Document Type: Article

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