Observation of coseismic seafloor crustal deformation due to M7 class offshore earthquakes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 23, 2006, Pages

  Tadokoro, Keiichi ^a   Ando, Masataka ^a   Ikruta, Ryoya ^a   Okuda, Takashi ^a   Besana, Glenda M ^a   Sugimoto, Shingo ^a   Kuno, Masahiro ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Mie Prefectural Science and Technology Promotion Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; JAPAN; RANGE FINDING;

OFFSHORE INTRAPLATE EARTHQUAKES; SEAFLOOR CRUSTAL DEFORMATION MEASUREMENT;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTIC METHOD; COSEISMIC PROCESS; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GPS; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; SEAFLOOR;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; KUMANO BASIN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 34250368573     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026742     Document Type: Article

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