Coastal deformation associated with the 2007 Noto Hanto earthquake, central Japan, estimated from uplifted and subsided intertidal organisms

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1059-1062

  Awata, Yasuo ^a   Toda, Shinji ^a   Kaneda, Heitaro ^a   Azuma, Takashi ^a,c   Horikawa, Haruo ^a   Shishikura, Masanobu ^a   Echigo, Tomoo ^b  

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

^b GEO RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c Japan Ministry of Education Culture Sports Science and Technology   (Japan)

Author keywords

2007 Noto Hanto earthquake; Coastal uplift; Concealed reverse fault; Coseismic crustal movement; Intertidal organisms

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC PROCESS; CRUSTAL MOVEMENT; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FORWARD MODELING; REVERSE FAULT; SOURCE PARAMETERS; SUBSIDENCE; UPLIFT;

ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; ISHIKAWA; JAPAN; NOTO PENINSULA;

EID: 40949086458     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352869     Document Type: Article

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