Very low frequency earthquakes excited by the 2004 off Kii peninsula earthquakes: A dynamic deformation process in the large accretionary prism

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 321-326

  Obara, Kazushige ^a   Ito, Yoshihiro ^a  

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

Author keywords

Accretionary prism; Broadband seismometer; Low frequency earthquake; Nankai trough; Subduction zone

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; SEISMICITY;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KII PENINSULA; KINKI; WORLD;

EID: 21844454484     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352570     Document Type: Article

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