Mechanism of deep low frequency earthquakes: Further evidence that deep non-volcanic tremor is generated by shear slip on the plate interface

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Ide, Satoshi ^a   Shelly, David R ^b   Beroza, Gregory C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TECTONICS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

DEEP LOW FREQUENCY EARTHQUAKES; DEEP NON-VOLCANIC TREMOR; SHEAR SLIP; THRUST FAULT;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FOCAL MECHANISM; MOMENT TENSOR; P-WAVE; PHILIPPINE SEA PLATE; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMOLOGY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; NANKAI TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN; SHIKOKU;

EID: 34548020994     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028890     Document Type: Article

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