Swarm-like seismic activity in 1989, 1990 and 1997 preceding the 2000 Western Tottori Earthquake

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 831-845

  Shibutani, Takuo ^a   Nakao, Setsuro ^a   Nishida, Ryohei ^b   Takeuchi, Fumiaki ^a   Watanabe, Kunihiko ^a   Umeda, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; SEISMICITY;

ASIA; CHUGOKU; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOTTORI [CHUGOKU]; TOTTORI [TOTTORI (PRF)]; WORLD;

EID: 0037838727     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352076     Document Type: Article

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