Simulation of postseismic deformations caused by the 1896 Riku-u earthquake, northeast Japan: Re-evaluation of the viscosity in the upper mantle

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 2561-2564

  Suito, Hisashi ^a   Hirahara, Kazuro ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISCOSITY; DEFORMATION; GEOPHYSICS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VISCOELASTICITY;

POSTSEISMIC DEFORMATIONS; UPPER MANTLE; EFFECTIVE THICKNESS; INLAND EARTHQUAKES; LAYERED STRUCTURES; POSTSEISMIC DEFORMATION; SUBDUCTION ZONES; SURFACE DEFORMATION; VISCO-ELASTIC MEDIUMS; VISCOELASTIC HETEROGENEITY;

SEISMOLOGY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

HONSHU; JAPAN;

EID: 0033385907     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900551     Document Type: Article

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