Hypocenter distribution of the main- and aftershocks of the 2005 Off Miyagi Prefecture earthquake located by ocean bottom seismographic data

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1543-1548

  Hino, Ryota ^a   Yamamoto, Yojiro ^a   Kuwano, Asako ^a   Nishino, Minoru ^a   Kanazawa, Toshihiko ^b   Tamada, Tomoaki ^b   Nakahigashi, Kazuo ^b   Mochizuki, Kimihiro ^b   Shinohara, Masanao ^b   Minato, Kouetsu ^c   Aoki, Gen ^c   Okawara, Nariaki ^c   Tanaka, Masayuki ^c   Abe, Masao ^c   Araki, Eiichiro ^d   Kodaira, Shuichi ^d   Fujie, Gou ^d   Kaneda, Yoshiyuki ^d  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Interplate seismicity; Ocean bottom seismographs; Off Miyagi Prefecture earthquake

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; ASPERITY; COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FOCAL MECHANISM; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMOGRAPH;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; MIYAGI; TOHOKU;

EID: 33745863920     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352658     Document Type: Article

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