Source processes of the 1978 and 2005 Miyagi-oki, Japan earthquakes: Repeated rupture of asperities over successive large earthquakes

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Wu, Changjiang ^a,b   Koketsu, Kazuki ^a   Miyake, Hiroe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SEISMOGRAM; SUBDUCTION ZONE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; MIYAGI; TOHOKU;

EID: 55949100827     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JB005189     Document Type: Article

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