Intraoceanic thrusts in the Nankai Trough off the Kii Peninsula: Implications for intraplate earthquakes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Tsuji, Takeshi ^a,b   Park, Jin Oh ^c   Moore, Gregory ^d   Kodaira, Shuichi ^b   Fukao, Yoshio ^b   Kuramoto, ShiN'Ichi ^b   Bangs, Nathan ^e  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D SEISMIC DATA; CUT-THROUGH; INTRAPLATE EARTHQUAKES; MAIN SHOCK; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; OCEANIC CRUST; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA; STRONG GROUND MOTION; SURVEY AREA; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); TSUNAMI WAVES;

EARTHQUAKES; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AFTERSHOCK; DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GROUND MOTION; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; OCEANIC CRUST; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SUBDUCTION; THRUST; TROUGH; TSUNAMI;

NANKAI TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINE SEA;

EID: 66949142473     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036974     Document Type: Article

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