Stress field along the Ryukyu Arc and the Okinawa Trough inferred from moment tensors of shallow earthquakes

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 210, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 305-316

  Kubo, Atsuki ^a   Fukuyama, Eiichi ^a  

^a National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arc parallel extension; Backarc opening; Moment tensor solution; Oblique subduction; Okinawa Trough; Ryukyu Arc; seismic coupling

Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; EARTHQUAKE; MOMENT TENSOR; PALEOSTRESS; STRESS FIELD; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0038015558     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00132-8     Document Type: Article

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