Scale dependence of apparent stress for earthquakes along the subducting pacific plate in northeastern Honshu, Japan

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1334-1345

  Takahashi, Tsutomu ^a   Sato, Haruo ^a   Ohtake, Masakazu ^a   Obara, Kazushige ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; LITHOLOGY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

APPARENT STRESS; GEOLOGIC AGE; HIGH FREQUENCY SOURCE SPECTRA; SPECTRAL AMPLITUDE;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE; STRESS; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

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

EID: 24944571941     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120040075     Document Type: Article

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