Non-volcanic seismic swarms triggered by circulating fluids and pressure fluctuations above a solidified diorite intrusion

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 15, 2010, Pages

  Kato, Aitaro ^a   Sakai, Shinichi ^a   Iidaka, Takashi ^a   Iwasaki, Takaya ^a   Hirata, Naoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; EARTHQUAKES; VOLCANOES;

CROSS CORRELATIONS; DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; DRIVING FORCES; EARTHQUAKE MIGRATION; FLUID MOVEMENT; FLUID PRESSURES; FLUID-FILLED; HEAT FLOWS; HIGH ASPECT RATIO; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH VELOCITY; PAST VOLCANISM; PRESSURE FLUCTUATION; SEISMIC SWARM; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; THERMAL ANOMALIES; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING; WAVE FORMS;

FLUIDS;

DIFFUSION; DIORITE; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; FLUID PRESSURE; HEAT FLOW; HEAT FLUX; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MAGMA; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOLOGY; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TOMOGRAPHY; VOLCANISM; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KINKI; WAKAYAMA [KINKI];

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 77955503570     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043887     Document Type: Article

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