What controls the occurrence of shallow intraplate earthquakes?

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1077-1086

  Iio, Yoshihisa ^a   Sagiya, Takeshi ^b   Kobayashi, Yoji ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ductile fault zone; Intraplate earthquake; Lower crust; Recurrence interval

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; INTRAPLATE PROCESS;

EID: 20544474161     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03353326     Document Type: Article

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