Fine fault structure of a moderate earthquake in the 2007 earthquake sequence of Northern Mie, Japan

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 981-985

  Yukutake, Yohei ^a,b   Takeda, Tetsuya ^a   Obara, Kazushige ^a  

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

^b HOT SPRINGS RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF KANAGAWA PREFECTURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aftershocks; Earthquake sequence; Fault structure; HypoDD; Northern Mie

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT PLANE; FOCAL MECHANISM;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KINKI; MIE;

EID: 56549119076     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352854     Document Type: Article

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