Deep structure of the ou mountain range strain concentration zone and the focal area of the 2008 Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku earthquake, NE Japan-seismogenesis related with magma and crustal fluid

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 347-352

  Okada, Tomomi ^a   Umino, Norihito ^a   Hasegawa, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

2008 Iwate Miyagi Nairiku earthquake; Crustal fluids; Focal area; Intraplate; Low velocity belt; Upwelling

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FLUID INCLUSION; FOCAL MECHANISM; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; PARTIAL MELTING; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC ZONE; STRAIN; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

HONSHU; IWATE; JAPAN; MIYAGI; OU MOUNTAINS; TOHOKU;

EID: 77950832745     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2009.11.005     Document Type: Article

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