Repeating earthquakes and quasi-static slip on the plate boundary east off northern Honshu, Japan

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 803-811

  Matsuzawa, Toru ^a   Uchida, Naoki ^a   Igarashi, Toshihiro ^b   Okada, Tomomi ^a   Hasegawa, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; PLATE BOUNDARY;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; WORLD;

EID: 17044362846     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03353087     Document Type: Article

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