A new model for the fault beneath the sedimentary basin in the 1891 Nobi earthquake

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-19

  Nakano, Masaru ^a,d   Miyakoshi, Jun'ichi ^b   Yamaoka, Koshun ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHIMIZU CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Coseismic leveling survey; Earthquake distribution; Focal mechanism; Gifu Ichinomiya fault; Seismic damage estimation

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT PLANE; FOCAL MECHANISM; MODEL; SEDIMENTARY BASIN;

EID: 34247269123     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352017     Document Type: Article

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