Source parameters of a M4.8 and its accompanying repeating earthquakes off Kamaishi, NE Japan: Implications for the hierarchical structure of asperities and earthquake cycle

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 20, 2007, Pages

  Uchida, Naoki ^a   Matsuzawa, Toru ^a   Ellsworth, William L ^b   Imanishi, Kazutoshi ^c   Okada, Tomomi ^a   Hasegawa, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

EARTHQUAKE CYCLE; JAPAN; MICROEARTHQUAKES; SUBDUCTION PLATE;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; MICROEARTHQUAKE; RECURRENCE INTERVAL; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; IWATE; JAPAN; KAMAISHI; TOHOKU;

EID: 37349075391     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031263     Document Type: Article

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