Seismic velocity decrease and recovery related to earthquake swarms in a geothermal area

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 685-691

  Maeda, Takuto ^a,b,c   Obara, Kazushige ^a,c   Yukutake, Yohei ^a  

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

^b Hot Spring Research Institute   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Earthquake swarm; Seismic interferometry; Temporal change

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; FLUID INCLUSION; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

JAPAN; KYUSHU;

EID: 79951656897     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2010.08.006     Document Type: Article

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