Fore arc structure and plate boundary earthquake sources along the southwestern Kuril subduction zone

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Okamura, Yukinobu ^a   Tsujino, Takumi ^a   Arai, Kohsaku ^a   Sasaki, Tomoyuki ^b   Satake, Kenji ^a,b   Joshima, Masato ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; FOREARC BASIN; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMIC SOURCE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TSUNAMI;

KURIL BASIN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF OKHOTSK;

EID: 50649117301     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JB005246     Document Type: Article

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