A viscoelastic model of interseismic strain concentration in Niigata-Kobe Tectonic zone of central Japan

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 667-675

  Hyodo, Mamoru ^a,b   Hirahara, Kazuro ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crustal structure; FEM; Interplate earthquake cycles; NKTZ; Pacific plate

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; STRAIN RATE;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; MEDIAN TECTONIC LINE; WORLD;

EID: 14944365056     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352473     Document Type: Article

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