A slow thrust slip event following the two 1996 Hyuganada earthquakes beneath the Bungo Channel, southwest Japan

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 3237-3240

  Hirose, Hitoshi ^a   Hirahara, Kazuro ^a   Kimata, Fumiaki ^a   Fujii, Naoyuki ^a   Miyazaki, Shin'ichi ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; EARTHQUAKES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MODAL ANALYSIS; STRESS ANALYSIS; TECTONICS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; COUPLINGS; FAULT SLIPS; GEOPHYSICS;

SEISMIC MOMENT; SLOW THRUST SLIP EVENTS;

SEISMOLOGY; EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULT SLIP; THRUST FAULT;

JAPAN;

CHANNEL REGION; CHARACTERISTIC MODES; INTERPLATE COUPLING; PLATE BOUNDARIES; SLIP DISTRIBUTION; SOUTHWESTERN JAPAN; SURFACE DISPLACEMENT; TRANSITION REGIONS;

EID: 0033226715     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL010999     Document Type: Article

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