Very broadband analysis of a swarm of very low frequency earthquakes and tremors beneath Kii Peninsula, SW Japan

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Takeo, Akiko ^a   Idehara, Koki ^a   Iritani, Ryohei ^a   Tonegawa, Takashi ^a   Nagaoka, Yutaka ^a   Nishida, Kiwamu ^a   Kawakatsu, Hitoshi ^a   Tanaka, Satoru ^b   Miyakawa, Koji ^a   Iidaka, Takashi ^a   Obayashi, Masayuki ^b   Tsuruoka, Hiroshi ^a   Shiomi, Katsuhiko ^c   Obara, Kazushige ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

FORMOSAT 3 COSMIC; Ionospheric midlatitude Summer Nighttime Anomaly

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

BROADBAND ANALYSIS; FOCAL MECHANISM; FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC; LOW FREQUENCY TREMORS; MIDLATITUDES; SEISMIC OBSERVATION; SUBDUCTING PLATE; VERY LOW FREQUENCY;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 79960633605     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL042586     Document Type: Article

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