Three-dimensional attenuation structure beneath southwest Japan estimated from spectra of microearthquakes

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 136, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 215-231

  Salah, Mohamed K ^a   Zhao, Dapeng ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

3D structure; Q value; Seismic attenuation; Southwest Japan

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MICROEARTHQUAKE; Q FACTOR; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

(SOUTHWEST); JAPAN; SHIKOKU;

EID: 0037705411     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(03)00049-9     Document Type: Article

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