Seismic structure of western end of the Nankai trough seismogenic zone

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 107, Issue 10, 2002, Pages

  Takahashi, Narumi ^a   Kodaira, Shuichi ^a   Nakanishi, Ayako ^a   Park, Jin Oh ^a   Miura, Seiichi ^a   Tsuru, Tetsuro ^a   Kaneda, Yoshiyuki ^a   Suyehiro, Kiyoshi ^a   Kinoshita, Hajimu ^a   Hirata, Naoshi ^b   Iwasaki, Takaya ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nankai trough; Ocean bottom seismographs (OBSs); Poisson ratio; Seismogenic zone; Velocity structure

Indexed keywords

CLAY MINERAL; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FOREARC BASIN; METAMORPHIC ROCK; OCEANIC CRUST; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SUBMARINE TROUGH; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

NANKAI TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037058198     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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