Groundwater-level anomalies associated with a hypothetical preslip prior to the anticipated Tokai earthquake: Detectability using the groundwater observation network of the geological survey of Japan, AIST

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 164, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2377-2396

  Matsumoto, Norio ^a   Kitagawa, Yuichi ^a   Koizumi, Naoji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Central Japan; Earthquake prediction; Groundwater level; Noise level; Preslip; Strain; Tokai earthquake

Indexed keywords

EID: 73549124283     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-007-0278-4     Document Type: Article

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