Recurrence behavior of short-term slow slip and correlated nonvolcanic tremor episodes in western Shikoku, southwest Japan

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Hirose, Hitoshi ^a   Obara, Kazushige ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SEISMIC SOURCE; SLIP RATE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TILT; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

JAPAN; SHIKOKU;

EID: 77954374701     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB006050     Document Type: Article

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