Deep structure of the Nagamachi-Rifu fault deduced from small aperture seismic array observations

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1033-1038

  Imanishi, Kazutoshi ^a   Ito, Hisao ^a   Kuwahara, Yasuto ^a   Mamada, Yutaka ^a   Yokokura, Takanobu ^a   Kano, Naomi ^a   Yamaguchi, Kazuo ^a   Tanaka, Akiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT GEOMETRY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; FAULT; MICROEARTHQUAKE; P-WAVE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC SURVEY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

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

EID: 20544439458     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03353297     Document Type: Article

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