Characteristic seismic activity in the subducting plate boundary zone off Kamaishi, northeastern Japan, revealed by precise hypocenter distribution analysis using ocean-bottom seismometers

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 19, 2004, Pages

  Okada, T ^a   Sakoda, K ^a   Matsuzawa, T ^a   Hino, R ^a   Hasegawa, A ^a   Sakai, S ^b   Kanazawa, T ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

7209 Seismology: Earthquake dynamics and mechanics; 7218 Seismology: Lithosphere and upper mantle; 7230 Seismology: Seismicity and seismotectonics; 8123 Technophysics: Dynamics, seismotectonics

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; EARTHQUAKES; GEOPHYSICS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

JAPAN; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMICITY; SEISMOMETERS;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMICITY; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN; WORLD;

EID: 11044234283     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020366     Document Type: Article

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