Very low frequency earthquakes related to small asperities on the plate boundary interface at the locked to aseismic transition

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 114, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Ito, Yoshihiro ^a   Obara, Kazushige ^c   Matsuzawa, Takanori ^c   Maeda, Takuto ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPERITY; DIP-SLIP FAULT; EARTHQUAKE; MAGNITUDE; MOMENT TENSOR; PHILIPPINE SEA PLATE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMOGRAM; SLIP;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 72049100657     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB006036     Document Type: Article

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