Migration properties of non-volcanic tremor in Shikoku, southwest Japan

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Obara, Kazushige ^a   Matsuzawa, Takanori ^b   Tanaka, Sachiko ^b   Kimura, Takeshi ^b   Maeda, Takuto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC PROPERTIES; DEEP LEVEL; MIGRATION PROPERTIES; NON-VOLCANIC TREMORS; PLATE INTERFACES; SLOW SLIP EVENTS; SMALL GAPS; SUBDUCTION INTERFACE; TIME EVOLUTIONS;

VOLCANOES;

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; VOLCANIC EARTHQUAKE;

JAPAN; SHIKOKU;

EID: 79956372366     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047110     Document Type: Article

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