Small repeating earthquakes and interplate creep around the 2005 Miyagi-oki earthquake (M=7.2)

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1577-1580

  Uchida, Naoki ^a   Matsuzawa, Toru ^a   Hirahara, Satoshi ^a   Hasegawa, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

asperity; interplate earthquake; Repeating earthquake; slow slip; subduction zone

Indexed keywords

ASPERITY; COSEISMIC PROCESS; CREEP; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; PLATE BOUNDARY; SLIP RATE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

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

EID: 33947505291     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352664     Document Type: Article

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