The M7.1 May 26, 2003 off-shore Miyagi Prefecture Earthquake in northeast Japan: Source process and aftershock distribution of an intra-slab event

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 731-739

  Okada, Tomomi ^a   Hasegawa, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

1978 off shore Miyagi inter plate earthquake; Double seismic zone; Hypocenter distribution; Intra slab event; Source process; The 2003 off shore Miyagi earthquake

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; MIYAGI; TOHOKU; WORLD;

EID: 3543099006     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352482     Document Type: Article

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