Asperity and barriers of the 2004 Mid-Niigata prefecture earthquake revealed by highly dense seismic observations

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 298-306

  Kato, Aitaro ^a   Miyatake, Takashi ^a   Hirata, Naoshi ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; CONTROL DYNAMIC; COSEISMIC SLIPS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DAMAGED ZONES; DENSE NETWORK; HIGH VELOCITY; HIGHLY DENSE; HOST ROCKS; KINEMATIC SLIP MODELS; MAINSHOCK FAULTS; NEGATIVE STRESS; RUPTURE PROCESS; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SEISMIC OBSERVATION; SEISMIC STATION; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; STATIC STRESS; STRESS CHANGES; STRUCTURAL HETEROGENEITY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EARTHQUAKES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

VELOCITY;

AFTERSHOCK; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT; HOST ROCK; SEISMICITY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EID: 75649090788     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090218     Document Type: Article

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