Precise hypocenter locations of midcrustal low-frequency earthquakes beneath Mt. Fuji, Japan

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2004, Pages

  Nakamichi, Haruhisa ^a,b,c   Ukawa, Motoo ^a   Sakai, Shinichi ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Focal mechanism; Fuji; Hypocenter; Low frequency earthquake

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; VOLCANIC EARTHQUAKE;

ASIA; CHUBU; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; MOUNT FUJI; WORLD;

EID: 20544451701     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/bf03352542     Document Type: Article

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