Seismic tomography and anisotropy in the source area of the 2008 Iwate-Miyagi earthquake (M 7.2)

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 184, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 172-185

  Cheng, Bin ^a,b   Zhao, Dapeng ^a   Zhang, Guowei ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Crustal earthquake; Magma and fluids; Seismic anisotropy; Seismic tomography; Slab dehydration; The 2008 iwate Miyagi earthquake

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPLEX NETWORKS; DEHYDRATION; GEOPHYSICS; POISSON RATIO; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

AZIMUTHAL ANISOTROPY; CRUSTAL EARTHQUAKES; DEHYDRATION REACTIONS; GENERATION MECHANISM; INTERMEDIATE-DEPTH EARTHQUAKES; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SLAB DEHYDRATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; ARRIVAL TIME; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; OCEANIC CRUST; P-WAVE; POISSON RATIO; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMICITY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

HONSHU; IWATE; JAPAN; MIYAGI; PACIFIC OCEAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 79952739772     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2010.11.006     Document Type: Article

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