Evidence for coseismic and aseismic uplift in the last 1000 years in the focal area of a shallow thrust earthquake on the Noto Peninsula, west-central Japan

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Shishikura, Masanobu ^a   Echigo, Tomoo ^b   Namegaya, Yuichi ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b GEO RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS;

CO-SEISMIC UPLIFTS; FOCAL AREAS; JAPAN SEAS; PALEOSHORELINES; SESSILE ORGANISMS; SHALLOW THRUSTS; TUBEWORMS;

EARTHQUAKES;

COASTAL ZONE; COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE; SHORELINE; THRUST; UPLIFT;

ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; ISHIKAWA; JAPAN; NOTO PENINSULA;

EID: 62749107614     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036252     Document Type: Article

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