Comparison of source areas of M4.8±0.1 repeating earthquakes off Kamaishi, NE Japan: Are asperities persistent features?

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 213, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 361-374

  Okada, Tomomi ^a   Matsuzawa, Toru ^a   Hasegawa, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asperity; Interplate earthquake; Repeating earthquakes; Subduction zone

Indexed keywords

ASPERITY; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KAMAISHI; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0042823561     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00299-1     Document Type: Article

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