Interplate coupling in southwest Japan deduced from inversion analysis of GPS data

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 17-34

  Ito, Takeo ^a   Yoshioka, Shoichi ^a   Miyazaki, Shin'ichi ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Satellite Geodetic Division   (Japan)

Author keywords

Back slip; Forward slip; GPS; Interplate coupling; Relative plate motion

Indexed keywords

COUPLING; CRUSTAL MOVEMENT; GPS; PLATE MOTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

JAPAN;

EID: 0032698527     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(99)00063-1     Document Type: Article

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