Seismic activity and deformation process of the overriding plate in the northeastern Japan subduction zone

Tectonophysics

Volumn 319, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 225-239

  Hasegawa, Akira ^a   Yamamoto, Akira ^a   Umino, Norihito ^a   Miura, Satoshi ^a   Horiuchi, Shigeki ^a   Zhao, Dapeng ^b   Sato, Hiroki ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Northeastern Japan arc; Seismic velocity perturbations; Temperature distribution; Travel time tomography

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; DEFORMATION; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMICITY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TRAVEL TIME;

JAPAN;

EID: 0033924235     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00296-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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