Investigation of the earthquake sequence off Miyagi prefecture with historical seismograms

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1533-1541

  Kanamori, Hiroo ^a   Miyazawa, Masatoshi ^b   Mori, Jim ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asperity; Characteristic earthquake; Miyagi Oki earthquakes; Probabilistic forecast

Indexed keywords

ASPERITY; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMOGRAM; SLIP RATE; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

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

EID: 33947510932     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352657     Document Type: Article

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