Correlation between Coulomb stress changes imparted by large historical strike-slip earthquakes and current seismicity in Japan

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 301-314

  Ishibe, Takeo ^a   Shimazaki, Kunihiko ^a,b   Tsuruoka, Hiroshi ^a   Yamanaka, Yoshiko ^c   Satake, Kenji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Association for Earthquake Disaster Prevention   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Background seismicity rate; CFF); Large historical earthquakes; Recent seismicity; Static change in the coulomb failure function (

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; COULOMB CRITERION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FOCAL MECHANISM; PROBABILITY; SEISMICITY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

HONSHU; JAPAN; WAKASA BAY;

EID: 79953847132     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2011.01.008     Document Type: Article

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