Scaling relationship between the duration and the amplitude of non-volcanic deep low-frequency tremors

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Watanabe, Tomoko ^a   Hiramatsu, Yoshihiro ^a   Obara, Kazushige ^b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE; SCALING LAWS; STRESS MEASUREMENT; STRESSES;

DEEP LOW-FREQUENCY (DLF) TREMOR; EXPONENTIAL MODEL; NON-VOLCANIC TREMOR; POWER LAW MODEL; STRESS DROP;

SEISMOLOGY;

MICROTREMOR; POWER LAW; PRESSURE DROP; SEISMIC SOURCE; STRESS;

AICHI; ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOKAI [AICHI];

EID: 34250722735     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL029391     Document Type: Article

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