The 27 May 1995 Ms 7.6 northern Sakhalin earthquake: An earthquake on an uncertain plate boundary

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 117-130

  Katsumata, Kei ^a   Kasahara, Minoru ^a   Ichiyanagi, Masayoshi ^a   Kikuchi, Masayuki ^b   Sen, Rak Se ^e   Kim, Chun Un ^c   Ivaschenko, Alexei ^c   Tatevossian, Ruben ^d  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^d SCHMIDT INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF THE EARTH   (Russian Federation)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCIES; ITERATIVE METHODS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEISMOGRAPHS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

EURASIAN PLATE; SAKHALIN ISLAND; SURFACE RUPTURE TRACING;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT SLIP; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; PLATE BOUNDARY; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHALIN; SAKHALIN ISLAND;

EID: 1842864376     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120020175     Document Type: Article

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