Coseismic fault-related fold model, growth structure, and the historic multisegment blind thrust earthquake on the basement-involved Yoro thrust, central Japan

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Ishiyama, Tatsuya ^a   Mueller, Karl ^b   Sato, Hiroshi ^c   Togo, Masami ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC PROCESS; DIP; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT SLIP; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FOLDING; GEOMETRY; HOLOCENE; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SLIP RATE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 34548583801     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JB004377     Document Type: Article

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