Revisiting the three M~7 Miyagi-oki earthquakes in the 1930s: Possible seismogenic slip on asperities that were re-ruptured during the 1978 M=7.4 Miyagi-oki earthquake

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1587-1592

  Umino, Norihito ^a   Kono, Toshio ^a   Okada, Tomomi ^a   Nakajima, Junichi ^a   Matsuzawa, Toru ^a   Uchida, Naoki ^a   Hasegawa, Akira ^a   Tamura, Yoshiaki ^b   Aoki, Gen ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^c Sendai District Meteorological Observatory   (Japan)

Author keywords

asperity; interplate earthquake; Miyagi oki earthquake; smoked paper seismogram; subduction zone

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; ARRIVAL TIME; ASPERITY; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMOGRAM; SLIP RATE; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

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

EID: 33947541460     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352666     Document Type: Article

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