Spatial variations in the frequency-magnitude distribution of earthquakes in the southwestern Okinawa Trough

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 221-225

  Lin, Jing Yi ^a,d   Sibuet, Jean Claude ^a   Lee, Chao Shing ^b   Hsu, Shu Kun ^c   Klingelhoefer, Frauke ^a  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

b Values; Magma chamber; Slab tear; Southern Okinawa Trough backarc basin

Indexed keywords

ANDESITE; BACKARC BASIN; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; MAGMA CHAMBER; NORMAL FAULT; SEISMICITY; SEISMOMETRY; SLAB; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EAST CHINA SEA; OKINAWA TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 34347372908     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03353098     Document Type: Article

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