Non-volcanic tremor resulting from the combined effect of Earth tides and slow slip events

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 1, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 676-678

  Nakata, Ryoko ^a   Suda, Naoki ^a   Tsuruoka, Hiroshi ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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EID: 60149098872     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo288     Document Type: Article

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