Source parameters of microearthquakes on an interplate asperity off Kamaishi, NE Japan over two earthquake cycles

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 999-1014

  Uchida, Naoki ^a   Matsuzawa, Toru ^a   Ellsworth, William L ^b   Imanishi, Kazutoshi ^c   Shimamura, Kouhei ^a   Hasegawa, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dynamics and mechanics of faulting; Dynamics: seismotectonics; Earthquake interaction, forecasting, and prediction; Earthquake source observations; Seismicity and tectonics; Subduction zone processes

Indexed keywords

CO-LOCATED; CORNER FREQUENCY; CROSS SPECTRA; EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCES; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; FOUR-GROUP; GROUP IDENTIFICATION; HYPOCENTRE; INTER-SEISMIC PERIODS; INTERPLATE EARTHQUAKES; MAINSHOCK; MICRO-EARTHQUAKES; PHASE IDENTIFICATION; REPEATING EARTHQUAKE; SEISMIC ACTIVITY; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMOTECTONICS; SOURCE AREA; SOURCE PARAMETERS; SOURCE SIZES; SPECTRAL RATIOS; STRESS DROP; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TEMPORAL FEATURES; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFORM SIMILARITY;

DROPS; DYNAMICS; FAULTING; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); LOADING;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FAULTING; GEODYNAMICS; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; MICROEARTHQUAKE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; S-WAVE; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SOURCE PARAMETERS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

HONSHU; IWATE; JAPAN; KAMAISHI; TOHOKU;

EID: 84859702974     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05377.x     Document Type: Article

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