Confirming sharp bending of the Pacific plate in the northern Japan trench subduction zone by applying a traveltime mapping method

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 157, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 72-85

  Fujie, Gou ^a   Ito, Aki ^a   Kodaira, Shuichi ^a   Takahashi, Narumi ^a   Kaneda, Yoshiyuki ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interplate earthquakes; Japan trench; Plate bending; Subduction zone; Traveltime mapping; Wide angle experiment

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS;

INTERPLATE EARTHQUAKES; JAPAN TRENCH; PLATE BENDING; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

BENDING; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; MAPPING METHOD; P-WAVE; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

AOMORI; ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; JAPAN TRENCH; MIYAGI; PACIFIC OCEAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 33745824588     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2006.03.013     Document Type: Article

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