Spatio-temporal evolution of Coulomb stress in the Pacific slab inverted from the seismicity rate change and its tectonic interpretation in Hokkaido, Northern Japan

Tectonophysics

Volumn 455, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 25-42

  Ghimire, Subesh ^a   Katsumata, Kei ^b   Kasahara, Minoru ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

2003 Tokachi Oki Earthquake; Coulomb stress change; Seismicity rate change; Stressing event

Indexed keywords

COULOMB CRITERION; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; MODELING; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMICITY; SLAB; STRESS CHANGE; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HOKKAIDO; JAPAN;

EID: 46049119792     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.04.017     Document Type: Article

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