Interplate coupling along the Nankai Trough off southwest Japan derived from GPS measurements

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 927-930

  Ozawa, Taku ^a   Tabei, Takao ^b   Miyazaki, Shin Ichi ^c  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^b KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EARTHQUAKES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC WAVES; TECTONICS; VELOCITY; MOTION ANALYSIS;

COSEISMIC DISLOCATION; INTERPLATE COUPLING; INTERSEISMIC COUPLING; STEADY STATE SUBDUCTION;

SEISMOLOGY; COUPLINGS;

COUPLING; GPS; PHILIPPINE SEA PLATE; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EURASIAN PLATES; GPS MEASUREMENTS; HORIZONTAL VELOCITY; INTER-SEISMIC PERIODS; INTERPLATE COUPLING; NANKAI TROUGHS; PHILIPPINE SEAS; PLATE INTERFACES;

EID: 0033117412     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900145     Document Type: Article

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