Spatial changes of inter-plate coupling inferred from sequences of small repeating earthquakes in Japan

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 20, 2010, Pages

  Igarashi, Toshihiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LARGE DEVIATIONS; LOW-FREQUENCY EARTHQUAKES; PACIFIC PLATES; PLATE MOTIONS; REPEATING EARTHQUAKE; SEISMIC EVENT; SPARSE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL CHANGES; STANDARD DEVIATION; SUBDUCTING PLATE; TIME CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSITION ZONES; WEAK COUPLINGS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EPISODIC EVENT; PLATE MOTION; SEISMIC ZONE; SLIP RATE; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINE SEA;

EID: 78049349214     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044609     Document Type: Article

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