Quantifying early aftershock activity of the 2004 mid-Niigata Prefecture earthquake (Mw6.6)

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Enescu, Bogdan ^a,b   Mori, Jim ^a   Miyazawa, Masatoshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; NIIGATA;

EID: 34250689010     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JB004629     Document Type: Article

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