Structural heterogeneity in northeast Japan and its implications for the genesis of the 2004 and 2007 Niigata earthquakes

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3355-3373

  Wang, Zhi ^a,b   Zhao, Dapeng ^c   Huang, Runqiu ^a   Tang, Xiangrong ^a   Mishra, O P ^d  

^a CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; ARRIVAL-TIME DATA; BULK VELOCITY; CONJUGATE FAULTS; CRACK DENSITY; CRUSTAL EARTHQUAKES; EASTERN AREA; FAULT SYSTEM; FAULT ZONE; GENERATION MECHANISM; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH VELOCITY; JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCIES; LOCATION METHOD; LOW VELOCITIES; LOWER CRUST; MAINSHOCK; MECHANICAL STRENGTH; NEO GENES; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; SOURCE AREA; SOURCE ROCKS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRUCTURAL HETEROGENEITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; TOMOGRAPHIC INVERSION; UPPERMOST MANTLE;

CRACKS; EARTHQUAKES; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

VELOCITY;

AFTERSHOCK; ARRIVAL TIME; DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; FAULT ZONE; HETEROGENEITY; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SOURCE PARAMETERS; SOURCE ROCK; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; NIIGATA;

EID: 70450213664     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080281     Document Type: Article

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