Performance of regional distance centroid moment tensor inversion applied to the 2004 mid-Niigata prefecture earthquake, Japan

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 167, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1317-1331

  Ito, Yoshihiro ^a   Sekiguchi, Shoji ^a   Okada, Tomomi ^b   Honda, Ryou ^c   Obara, Kazushige ^a   Hori, Sadaki ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HOT SPRINGS RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF KANAGAWA PREFECTURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Earthquake location; Earthquake source mechanism; Fault plane solutions; Seismicity; Seismograph network; Wave form analysis

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; ALGORITHM; CENTROID MOMENT TENSOR; EARTHQUAKE; FAULT PLANE; FOCAL MECHANISM; INVERSE ANALYSIS; SEISMICITY; SEISMOGRAPH;

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

EID: 33845340774     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03109.x     Document Type: Article

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