Foreshock and aftershock sequence of the 1998 M 5.0 Sendai, northeastern Japan, earthquake and its implications for earthquake nucleation

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 2465-2477

  Umino, Norihito ^a   Okada, Tomomi ^a   Hasegawa, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; NUCLEATION; SEISMOGRAPHS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

ACTIVE FAULTS;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

ACTIVE FAULT; AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE; FOCAL MECHANISM; FORESHOCK; NUCLEATION;

HONSHU; JAPAN; SENDAI;

EID: 0036704976     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120010140     Document Type: Article

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