Three-dimensional velocity structure in the Bungo Channel and Shikoku area, Japan, and its relationship to low-frequency earthquakes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 24, 2006, Pages

  Nugraha, Andri Dian ^a   Mori, Jim ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SEISMIC WAVES; TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

LOW-FREQUENCY EARTHQUAKES; PLATE INTERFACE;

SEISMOLOGY;

DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE; P-WAVE; PLATE TECTONICS; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ASIA; BUNGO CHANNEL; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; SHIKOKU;

EID: 34548045056     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028479     Document Type: Article

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