Anomalous deepening of a belt of intraslab earthquakes in the Pacific slab crust under Kanto, central Japan: Possible anomalous thermal shielding, dehydration reactions, and seismicity caused by shallower cold slab material

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Hasegawa, Akira ^a   Nakajima, Junichi ^a   Kita, Saeko ^a   Okada, Tomomi ^a   Matsuzawa, Toru ^a   Kirby, Stephen H ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; GEOPHYSICS; LITHOLOGY;

SEISMIC BELT; SUBDUCTING;

TECTONICS;

CRUST; DEHYDRATION; LOW VELOCITY ZONE; MANTLE; SEISMICITY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HOKKAIDO; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINE SEA; TOHOKU;

EID: 34347248353     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL029616     Document Type: Article

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