Existence of low-velocity zones under the source areas of the 2004 Chuetsu and 2007 Chuetsu-oki earthquakes inferred from travel-time tomography

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1127-1130

  Nakajima, Junichi ^a   Hasegawa, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chuetsu earthquake; Chuetsu oki earthquake; Fluids; Low velocity zone; Mantle upwelling; Seismic tomography

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; FAULT ZONE; LOW VELOCITY ZONE; LOWER CRUST; MOHO; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SOURCE PARAMETERS; TRAVEL TIME; UPPER MANTLE; UPWELLING; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EID: 57949103417     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03353148     Document Type: Article

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