Detection of shallowest submarine seismicity by acoustic coupled shear waves

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 106, Issue B7, 2001, Pages 13485-13499

  Sugioka, Hiroko ^a,d   Fukao, Yoshio ^a   Okamoto, Taro ^b   Kanjo, Kenji ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE; COUPLING; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; S-WAVE; SEISMOMETRY; TRIPLE JUNCTION;

BOSO PENINSULA; HONSHU; JAPAN;

EID: 0034904462     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jb900476     Document Type: Article

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