Recurrence intervals of characteristic M4.8±0.1 earthquakes off-Kamaishi, NE Japan - Comparison with creep rate estimated from small repeating earthquake data

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 233, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 155-165

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

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asperity; Characteristic earthquake; Creep; Northeast Japan; quasi static slip; Repeating earthquake; Subduction zone

Indexed keywords

ASPERITY; EARTHQUAKE SWARMS; PLATE BOUNDARIES; RECURRENCE INTERVALS;

ACCELERATION; CREEP; DECELERATION; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

CREEP; EARTHQUAKE; PLATE MOTION; RECURRENCE INTERVAL; SEISMICITY; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

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

EID: 17044386900     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.01.022     Document Type: Article

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