Low-frequency tremors, intraslab and interplate earthquakes in Southwest Japan - From a viewpoint of slab dehydration

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 22, 2003, Pages

  Seno, Tetsuzo ^a   Yamasaki, Tadashi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEHYDRATION; EARTHQUAKES; EMBRITTLEMENT; FRACTURE; PORE PRESSURE; PRESSURE EFFECTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; FRACTURING FLUIDS; GEOPHYSICS;

LOW-FREQUENCY TREMORS; OCEANIC CRUST;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING; EARTHQUAKES;

DEHYDRATION; EARTHQUAKE; MICROTREMOR; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TONALITE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

DEHYDRATION EMBRITTLEMENTS; GREAT EARTHQUAKE; HYDRO-FRACTURING; HYDROUS MINERAL; INTERPLATE EARTHQUAKES; LOW FREQUENCY TREMORS; PORE FLUID PRESSURE; SLAB DEHYDRATION;

EID: 0942267349     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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