Magnetotelluric investigations for the seismically active area in Northern Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 351-361

  Ichiki, Masahiro ^a,d   Mishina, Masaaki ^b   Goto, Tadanori ^c   Oshiman, Naoto ^a   Sumitomo, Norihiko ^a   Utada, Hisashi ^d  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c AICHI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; SEISMICITY;

HONSHU; JAPAN; MIYAGI PREFECTURE;

EID: 0033432707     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352239     Document Type: Article

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