Deep low-frequency earthquakes beneath the focal region of the Mw 6.7 2000 western Tottori earthquake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 54-1-54-4

  Ohmi, Shiro ^a   Obara, Kazushige ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; WATER;

AMPLITUDE RATIO;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FLUID FLOW; FOCAL MECHANISM; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

HONSHU; JAPAN; TOTTORI;

EID: 0242600708     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL014469     Document Type: Article

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