Interplate coupling in the Tohoku district, Japan, deduced from geodetic data inversion

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 104, Issue B9, 1999, Pages 20361-20377

  El Fiky, Gamal S ^a,b   Kato, Teruyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY AND GEOPHYSICS   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLING; GEODESY; ISLAND ARC; PLATE BOUNDARY;

JAPAN;

EID: 0033543281     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jb900202     Document Type: Article

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