Rupture process of the July 2003 northern Miyagi earthquake sequence, NE Japan, estimated from double-difference hypocenter locations

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 741-750

  Okada, Tomomi ^a   Umino, Norihito ^a   Hasegawa, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Double difference method; Foreshock; Hypocenter distribution; Inversion tectonics; The 2003 northern Miyagi earthquake; The Ishinomaki wan Fault

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE;

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

EID: 20544448292     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352483     Document Type: Article

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