P-wave tomography, anisotropy and seismotectonics in the eastern margin of Japan Sea

Tectonophysics

Volumn 489, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 177-188

  Huang, Zhouchuan ^a,b   Zhao, Dapeng ^a   Umino, Norihito ^a   Wang, Liangshu ^b   Matsuzawa, Toru ^a   Hasegawa, Akira ^a   Yoshida, Takeyoshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Crustal earthquakes; Eastern margin of the Japan Sea; Fluids; Tomography

Indexed keywords

AZIMUTHAL ANISOTROPY; BACK-ARC; COMPRESSIONAL; CRUSTAL EARTHQUAKES; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEPTH PHASE; EASTERN MARGIN OF THE JAPAN SEA; GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-PRECISION; JAPAN SEA; LOW-VELOCITY ZONE; P-WAVE ARRIVAL; P-WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURE; RIFT ZONES; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOGRAPH STATIONS; SEISMOTECTONICS; STRONG HETEROGENEITIES; UPPER MANTLE; UPPERMOST MANTLE; VELOCITY VARIATIONS; VOLCANICS;

ANISOTROPY; EARTHQUAKES; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; TIME VARYING NETWORKS; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ARRIVAL TIME; AZIMUTH; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EARTHQUAKE; P-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOTECTONICS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN;

EID: 77953725165     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.04.014     Document Type: Article

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