Does the 2007 Noto Hanto earthquake reveal a weakness in the Japanese national seismic hazard map that could be remedied with geological data?

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1047-1052

  Toda, Shinji ^a   Awata, Yasuo ^a  

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

Author keywords

Blind thrust; Earthquake probability; Long term earthquake forecasting; Noto Hanto earthquake; Seismic hazard map

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; SEISMIC HAZARD; THRUST FAULT;

ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; ISHIKAWA; JAPAN; NOTO PENINSULA;

EID: 57349198256     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352867     Document Type: Article

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