Stresses in the subducting slab beneath southwest Japan and relation with plate geometry, tectonic forces, slab dehydration, and damaging earthquakes

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 109, Issue 8, 2004, Pages

  Wang, Kelin ^a,b   Wada, Ikuko ^b   Ishikawa, Yuzo ^c  

^a Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Focal mechanism; In slab earthquakes; Slab metamorphism; Subduction dynamics; Tectonic stress

Indexed keywords

FOCAL MECHANISM; PLATE TECTONICS; SLAB; STRESS ANALYSIS; SUBDUCTION;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; NANKAI TROUGH; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 7044260959     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JB002888     Document Type: Article

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