Reactivations of boundary faults within a buried ancient rift system by ductile creeping of weak shear zones in the overpressured lower crust: The 2004 mid-Niigata Prefecture Earthquake

Tectonophysics

Volumn 486, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 101-107

  Kato, Aitaro ^a   Iidaka, Takashi ^a   Iwasaki, Takaya ^a   Hirata, Naoshi ^a   Nakagawa, Shigeki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aftershocks; Boundary faults within the buried ancient rift system; Overpressured crustal fluids; Reflective lower crust; The 2004 mid Niigata Prefecture Earthquake; Tomography

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY FAULTS; BOUNDARY FAULTS WITHIN THE BURIED ANCIENT RIFT SYSTEM; LOWER CRUST; REFLECTIVE LOWER CRUST; RIFT SYSTEMS; THE 2004 MID-NIIGATA PREFECTURE EARTHQUAKE;

BUILDINGS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

ACTIVE FAULT; AFTERSHOCK; BASEMENT ROCK; CREEP; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULT ZONE; LOWER CRUST; MIOCENE; OVERPRESSURE; RIFT ZONE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMICITY; SHEAR ZONE; THRUST FAULT;

CHUBU; HONSHU; JAPAN; NIIGATA;

EID: 77952009417     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.02.012     Document Type: Article

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