Source fault of the 2007 Chuetsu-oki, Japan, earthquake

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 384-391

  Miyake, Hiroe ^a   Koketsu, Kazuki ^a   Hikima, Kazuhito ^a   Shinohara, Masanao ^a   Kanazawa, Toshihiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK LOCATION; CENTROID MOMENT TENSORS; CONJUGATE FAULTS; CRUSTAL EARTHQUAKES; EMPIRICAL GREEN'S FUNCTIONS; FAULT PLANES; GROUND MOTIONS; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; RELATIVE LOCATION; RUPTURE PROPAGATION; SOURCE FAULT; SOURCE INVERSION; SOURCE REGION; STRONG-MOTION; TIME-DIFFERENCES; WAVE FORMS; WAVE RADIATION;

GREEN'S FUNCTION; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT PLANE; FAULT ZONE; GREEN FUNCTION; GROUND MOTION; MOMENT TENSOR; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; S-WAVE; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOGRAM; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

JAPAN;

EID: 75649086157     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090126     Document Type: Article

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