Repetitive long-term slow slip events beneath the Bungo Channel, southwestern Japan, identified from leveling and sea level data from 1979 to 2008

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Kobayashi, Akio ^a   Yamamoto, Takeyasu ^b  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b Sapporo District Meteorological Observatory   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; GPS; LEVELING; PHILIPPINE SEA PLATE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SLIP; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

BUNGO CHANNEL; JAPAN;

EID: 79955409315     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JB007822     Document Type: Article

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