Rupture process at the beginning of the 2007 Chuetsu-oki, Niigata, Japan, earthquake

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 279-283

  Takenaka, Hiroshi ^a   Yamamoto, Yosuke ^b   Yamasaki, Hirokazu ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GEO RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

2007 Chuetsu oki earthquake; Asperity; Fault plane; Initial rupture; Source process

Indexed keywords

ASPERITY; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT PLANE; FAULT PROPAGATION; FOCAL MECHANISM; P-WAVE; STRONG MOTION;

EID: 62649108842     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352908     Document Type: Article

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