Seismotectonics beneath the tokyo metropolitan area, Japan: Effect of slab-slab contact and overlap on seismicity

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 114, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Nakajima, Junichi ^a   Hirose, Fuyuki ^b   Hasegawa, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY; COLLISION ZONE; EARTHQUAKE; METROPOLITAN AREA; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SERPENTINIZATION; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; THRUST; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINE SEA; TOKYO [KANTO];

EID: 72749102511     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB006101     Document Type: Article

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