Low-frequency tremors associated with reverse faults in a shallow accretionary prism

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 287, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 168-174

  Obana, Koichiro ^a   Kodaira, Shuichi ^a  

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

Author keywords

accretionary prism; low frequency tremor; Nankai trough; splay fault

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CLOSE RANGE; DOMINANT FREQUENCY; DYNAMIC LOADINGS; EPISODIC ACTIVITY; FREQUENCY RANGES; INTERPLATE EARTHQUAKES; LANDWARD SLOPE; LOW FREQUENCY; LOW-FREQUENCY TREMOR; NANKAI TROUGH; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOGRAPHS; REVERSE FAULTING; REVERSE FAULTS; SEISMOGENIC ZONES; SOURCE LOCATION; SPLAY FAULT; SUBDUCTION ZONES; VERY LOW FREQUENCY;

EARTHQUAKES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEISMOGRAPHS; TECTONICS; TSUNAMIS;

PRISMS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; MICROTREMOR; REVERSE FAULT; SEISMIC SOURCE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TSUNAMI;

NANKAI TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 70349378687     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.08.005     Document Type: Article

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