Hypocenter and focal mechanism distributions of aftershocks of July 26 2003 M6.4 northern Miyagi, NE Japan, earthquake revealed by temporary seismic observation

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 719-730

  Umino, Norihito ^a   Okada, Tomomi ^a   Nakajima, Junichi ^a   Hori, Shuichiro ^a   Kono, Toshio ^a   Nakayama, Takashi ^a   Uchida, Naoki ^a   Shimizu, Junpei ^a   Suganomata, Junichi ^a   Gamage, Shantha S N ^a   Hasegawa, Akira ^a   Asano, Youichi ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aftershock; Earthquake fault; Focal mechanism; Northeastern Japan arc; Northern Miyagi earthquake; Shallow earthquake

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE;

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

EID: 20544459403     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352481     Document Type: Article

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