A physical mechanism for temporal variation in seismicity in Southwest Japan related to the great interplate earthquakes along the Nankai trough

Tectonophysics

Volumn 308, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 83-98

  Hori, Takane ^a   Oike, Kazuo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Active faults; Fault interaction; Historical earthquakes; Simulation of earthquake sequences; Tectonic stress accumulation

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; PALEOSEISMICITY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TROUGH;

JAPAN;

EID: 0032713188     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00079-7     Document Type: Article

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