Estimation of deep fault geometry of the Nagamachi-Rifu fault from seismic array observations

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1027-1031

  Nakamura, Ayako ^a   Asano, Youichi ^a   Hasegawa, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT GEOMETRY; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

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

EID: 20544439996     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03353296     Document Type: Article

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