Offshore double-planed shallow seismic zone in the NE Japan forearc region revealed by sP depth phases recorded by regional networks

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 195-214

  Gamage, Shantha S N ^a   Umino, Norihito ^a   Hasegawa, Akira ^a   Kirby, Stephen H ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asia; Body waves; Intra plate processes; Seismicity and tectonics; Subduction zone processes; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; BODY WAVE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULTING; FOCAL MECHANISM; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; NORMAL FAULT; P-WAVE; PACIFIC PLATE; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC ZONE; SEISMOGRAM; SEISMOTECTONICS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; JAPAN TRENCH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 67650128559     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04048.x     Document Type: Article

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