Three-dimensional velocity structure in the source region of the Noto Hanto Earthquake in 2007 imaged by a dense seismic observation

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 105-110

  Kato, Aitaro ^a   Sakai, Shinichi ^a   Iidaka, Takashi ^a   Iwasaki, Takaya ^a   Kurashimo, Eiiji ^a   Igarashi, Toshihiro ^a   Hirata, Naoshi ^a   Kanazawa, Toshikiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aftershocks; Inversion tectonics; The Noto Hanto Earthquake in 2007; Tomography

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; ARRIVAL TIME; DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; INVERSION TECTONICS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

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

EID: 40949086516     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352769     Document Type: Article

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