Anomalous low-velocity zone and linear alignment of seismicity along it in the subducted Pacific slab beneath Kanto, Japan: Reactivation of subducted fracture zone?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 16, 2006, Pages

  Nakajima, Junichi ^a   Hasegawa, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEHYDRATION; EARTHQUAKES; GEOPHYSICS;

FOSSIL FRACTURE ZONE; HYDRATED FRACTURE ZONE; OCEANIC CRUST;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

ANOMALY; DEHYDRATION; EARTHQUAKE; FRACTURE ZONE; LOW VELOCITY ZONE; MANTLE; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMICITY; SLAB; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 33845657760     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026773     Document Type: Article

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