Detailed imaging of the fault planes of the 2004 Niigata-Chuetsu, central Japan, earthquake sequence by double-difference tomography

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 244, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 32-43

  Okada, Tomomi ^a   Yaginuma, Tadashi ^a   Umino, Norihito ^a   Matsuzawa, Toru ^a   Hasegawa, Akira ^a   Zhang, Haijiang ^b   Thurber, Clifford H ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aftershocks; Asperity; Fault plane; Seismic tomography; The 2004 Niigata Chuetsu (Mid Niigata) earthquake

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCKS; ASPERITY; DOUBLE-DIFFERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; FAULT PLANES; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPRESSIVE STRESS; EARTHQUAKES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SEISMIC WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE; FAULT PLANE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; NIIGATA;

EID: 33645517305     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.02.010     Document Type: Article

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