Low-frequency continuous tremor around the Moho discontinuity away from volcanoes in the southwest Japan

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 20-1-20-4

  Katsumata, Akio ^a   Kamaya, Noriko ^a  

^a JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; FLUID DYNAMICS; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

TREMORS;

VOLCANOES;

DEHYDRATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; MOHO; SEISMICITY; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

JAPAN;

EID: 0037831199     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002gl015981     Document Type: Article

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