Aseismic slip during the 1996 earthquake swarm in and around the Onikobe geothermal area, NE Japan

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 290, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 302-310

  Takada, Youichiro ^a   Furuya, Masato ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

aseismic slip; earthquake swarm; InSAR; Onikobe caldera; topographic growth

Indexed keywords

ASEISMIC FAULTS; EARTHQUAKE SWARMS; GEOTHERMAL AREAS; GROUND DISPLACEMENT; LINE-OF-SIGHT; RADAR INTERFEROGRAMS; REVERSE FAULTS; STEEP GRADIENTS;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; RADAR;

EARTHQUAKES;

DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; REVERSE FAULT; SEISMICITY; SLIP RATE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

HONSHU; JAPAN; MIYAGI; ONIKOBE; TOHOKU;

EID: 75149186881     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.024     Document Type: Article

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