Structure of the upper crust in Japan from S-wave attenuation tomography

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 428-434

  Pei, Shunping ^a   Cui, Zhongxiong ^a   Sun, Youshun ^b   Toksöz, M Nafi ^b   Rowe, Charlotte A ^c   Gao, Xing ^a   Zhao, Junmeng ^a   Liu, Hongbing ^a   He, Jiankun ^a   Morgan, F Dale ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; RISK PERCEPTION; SHEAR WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY; VOLCANOES;

AMPLITUDE FREQUENCIES; ATTENUATION TOMOGRAPHIES; CRUSTAL EARTHQUAKES; EAST COASTS; EPICENTRAL DISTANCES; HIGH SENSITIVITIES; MAXIMUM AMPLITUDES; Q-VALUES; SEISMIC ATTENUATIONS; SEISMIC WAVEFORMS; UPPER CRUSTS; WAVE ATTENUATIONS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; Q FACTOR; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC ZONE; UPPER CRUST; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 60649111107     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080029     Document Type: Article

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