Initial rupture process of microearthquakes recorded by high sampling borehole seismographs at the Nojima fault, central Japan

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 269-279

  Hiramatsu, Yoshihiro ^a   Furumoto, Muneyoshi ^a   Nishigami, Kin'ya ^b   Ohmi, Shiro ^b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Initial rupture process; Nucleation; Pre existing crack; Weak initial phase

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT SLIP; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

JAPAN;

EID: 0037108025     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(02)00083-3     Document Type: Article

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