A preliminary fault model of the 2003 July 26, M6.4 northern Miyagi earthquake, northeastern Japan, estimated from joint inversion of GPS, leveling, and InSAR data

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 751-757

  Nishimura, Takuya ^a   Imakiire, Tetsuro ^a   Yarai, Hiroshi ^a   Ozawa, Taku ^b   Murakami, Makoto ^a   Kaidzu, Masaru ^a  

^a GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crustal deformation; Earthquake; GPS; InSAR; Leveling; Northeastern Japan

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE;

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

EID: 20544476504     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352484     Document Type: Article

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