Configuration of subducting Philippine Sea plate beneath southwest Japan revealed from receiver function analysis based on the multivariate autoregressive model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Shiomi, Katsuhiko ^a   Sato, Haruo ^b   Obara, Kazushige ^a   Ohtake, Masakazu ^b  

^a National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Philippine Sea plate; Receiver function; Seismicity

Indexed keywords

DISCONTINUITY; PHILIPPINE SEA PLATE; PLATE MOTION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

EID: 3242762204     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JB002774     Document Type: Article

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