Seismic imaging of the Amur-Okhotsk plate boundary zone in the Japan Sea

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 188, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 82-95

  Zhao, Dapeng ^a   Huang, Zhouchuan ^a   Umino, Norihito ^a   Hasegawa, Akira ^a   Yoshida, Takeyoshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Earthquakes; Japan Sea; Slab dehydration; SP depth phase; The Amur plate; The Okhotsk plate

Indexed keywords

DEPTH PHASE; JAPAN SEA; OKHOTSK; SLAB DEHYDRATION; THE AMUR PLATE;

EARTHQUAKES; GEODYNAMICS; TECTONICS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

ARRIVAL TIME; COMPRESSION; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; GEODYNAMICS; IMAGING METHOD; P-WAVE; PLATE BOUNDARY; POISSON RATIO; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOLOGY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SLAB; TECTONIC PLATE; WAVE VELOCITY;

HONSHU; JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN;

EID: 80053318995     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2011.06.013     Document Type: Article

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