Imaging heterogeneous velocity structures and complex aftershock distributions in the source region of the 2007 Niigataken Chuetsu-oki Earthquake by a dense seismic observation

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1111-1116

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aftershocks; Heterogeneous structures; The 2007 Niigataken Chuetsu oki Earthquake; Tomography

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; ARRIVAL TIME; DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT PLANE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SOURCE PARAMETERS; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; NIIGATA;

EID: 53849139679     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03353145     Document Type: Article

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