Crustal strains in the Japanese islands as deduced from dense GPS array

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 3445-3448

  Kato, T ^a   El Fiky, G S ^a,c   Oware, E N ^a   Miyazaki, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY AND GEOPHYSICS   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; SHEAR STRESS; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

CRUSTAL STRAINS; SUBDUCTING OCEANIC PLATES;

GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; STRAIN;

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; GPS; STRAIN; TECTONICS;

JAPAN;

COMPRESSIVE STRAIN; DENSE GPS ARRAY; DILATATIONAL STRAIN; HORIZONTAL VELOCITY; JAPANESE ISLANDS; MAXIMUM SHEARS; PREDICTION METHODS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS;

EID: 0032531359     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02693     Document Type: Article

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