Gravity changes observed between 2004 and 2009 near the Tokai slow-slip area and prospects for detecting fluid flow during future slow-slip events

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 905-913

  Tanaka, Yoshiyuki ^a   Kato, Aitaro ^a   Sugano, Takayuki ^a   Fu, Guangyu ^b   Zhang, Xinlin ^a   Furuya, Masato ^c   Sun, Wenke ^d   Okubo, Shuhei ^a   Matsumoto, Shigeo ^e   Honda, Masaki ^f   Sugawara, Yasuhiro ^f   Ueda, Isao ^f   Kusaka, Masaaki ^f   Ishihara, Misao ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^e Sumiko Consultants Co Ltd   (Japan)

^f GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crustai deformation; Fluid; Gravity; Permeability; Poroelasticity; Slow earthquake; Slow slip; Subduction zone

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; FLUID FLOW; GRAVITY ANOMALY; PERMEABILITY; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; POROELASTICITY; SLIP RATE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

HONSHU; JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; TOKAI [HONSHU];

EID: 79952589469     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2010.11.003     Document Type: Article

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