High resolution 3-D velocity structure in the source region of the 2000 Western Tottori Earthquake in southwestern Honshu, Japan using very dense aftershock observations

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 825-838

  Shibutani, Takuo ^a   Katao, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

3 D velocity structure; Aftershock distribution; Aftershock observation; Focal mechanisms; The 2000 Western Tottori Earthquake

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ASIA; CHUGOKU; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOTTORI [CHUGOKU]; WORLD;

EID: 27744470062     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03351861     Document Type: Article

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