Stress magnitude and its temporal variation at Mt. Asama Volcano, Japan, from seismic anisotropy and GPS

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 290, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 403-414

  Savage, Martha K ^a   Ohminato, Takao ^b   Aoki, Yosuke ^b   Tsuji, Hiroshi ^b   Greve, Sonja M ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

anisotropy; GPS; Japan; shear wave splitting; stress; volcano

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE ACTIVITY; GPS; GROUND SURFACE DEFORMATION; HORIZONTAL STRESS; JAPAN; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; STRESS MAGNITUDE; STRESS MONITORING; STRESS REGIME; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VERTICAL STRESS;

ASPECT RATIO; CRACKS; DEFORMATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; VOLCANOES;

ANISOTROPY;

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GPS; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; WAVE SPLITTING;

ASAMA VOLCANO; CHUBU; HONSHU; JAPAN; NAGANO;

EID: 75149122738     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.037     Document Type: Article

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