Subsurface structures derived from receiver function analysis and relation to hypocenter distributions in the region from the eastern Shikoku to the northern Chugoku districts, southwest Japan

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 573-579

  Ueno, Tomotake ^a,b   Shibutani, Takuo ^a   Ito, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hypocenter distribution; Philippine Sea plate; Receiver function

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DISCONTINUITY; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; PHILIPPINE SEA PLATE; SEISMIC SURVEY; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

ASIA; CHUGOKU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; SHIKOKU;

EID: 48849117349     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03353120     Document Type: Article

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