The 1995 Off-Etorofu earthquake: Joint relocation of foreshocks, the mainshock, and aftershocks and implications for the earthquake nucleation process

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1112-1126

  Hurukawa, Nobuo ^a  

^a BUILDING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FORESHOCK;

JAPAN;

EID: 0032450117     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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