Difference in the maximum magnitude of interplate earthquakes off Shikoku and in the Hyuganada region, southwest Japan, inferred from the temperature distribution obtained from numerical modeling. - The proposed Hyuganada triangle -

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 263, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 309-322

  Yoshioka, Shoichi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hyuganada; interplate earthquake; Nankai; seismogenic zone; temperature distribution

Indexed keywords

INTERPLATE EARTHQUAKE; MANTLE; SEISMOGENIC ZONE; SUBDUCTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; HEAT FLOW; MOHO; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHILIPPINE SEA PLATE; SERPENTINIZATION; SUBDUCTION;

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

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 35549004031     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.08.025     Document Type: Article

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