Temporal change of interplate coupling in northeastern Japan during 1995-2002 estimated from continuous GPS observations

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 901-916

  Nishimura, Takuya ^a   Hirasawa, Tomowo ^b   Miyazaki, Shin'ichi ^c   Sagiya, Takeshi ^a   Tada, Takashi ^a   Miura, Satoshi ^d   Tanaka, Kazuo ^e  

^a GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b Association for the Development of Earthquake Prediction   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crustal deformation; Fault slip; Global Positioning System (GPS); Northeastern Japan; Subduction zone

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; GPS; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; SLIP RATE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 2542548121     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2004.02159.x     Document Type: Article

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