Seismic imaging of the entire arc of Tohoku and Hokkaido in Japan using P-wave, S-wave and sP depth-phase data

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 152, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 144-162

  Wang, Zhi ^a   Zhao, Dapeng ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

NE Japan and Kuril arcs; Seismic tomography; sP depth phase; Subduction zone

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

DEPTH PHASE; INTERPLATE EARTHQUAKES; JAPAN; SEISMIC IMAGING; SEISMIC STRUCTURE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

ISLAND ARC; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

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

EID: 26444432781     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2005.06.010     Document Type: Article

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