Array back-projection imaging of the 2007 Niigataken Chuetsu-oki earthquake striking the world's largest nuclear power plant

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 141-147

  Honda, Ryou ^a   Aoi, Shin ^b  

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; SEISMOGRAPHS;

BACK PROJECTIONS; DENSE ARRAYS; DESIGN LEVELS; FAULT PLANES; FOUNDATION SLABS; GROUND MOTIONS; RUPTURE PROCESS; RUPTURE ZONES; SEISMOGRAPH NETWORKS; SLIP DISTRIBUTIONS; STRONG MOTIONS; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFORM INVERSIONS;

NUCLEAR ENERGY;

ASPERITY; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GROUND MOTION; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMOMETRY; STRONG MOTION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; NIIGATA;

EID: 60649104052     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080062     Document Type: Article

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