Spatiotemporal distribution of interplate coupling in southwest Japan from inversion of geodetic data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Ito, Takeo ^a   Hashimoto, Manabu ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Afterslip; Geodetic data; Interplate coupling; Spatiotemporal distribution; Stress relaxation; Viscoelastic asthenosphere

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERE; DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE; GEODESY; PLATE TECTONICS; SLIP RATE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUBDUCTION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; NANKAI TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 2542482590     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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