Small repeating earthquake activity, interplate quasi-static slip, and interplate coupling in the Hyuga-nada, southwestern Japan subduction zone

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Yamashita, Yusuke ^a   Shimizu, Hiroshi ^a   Goto, Kazuhiko ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLINGS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM (GPS); INTERPLATE COUPLING; INTERPLATE EARTHQUAKES; QUASI-STATIC; REPEATING EARTHQUAKE; SLIP RATES; SOUTHWESTERN JAPAN; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; GPS; SLIP; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRENCH;

JAPAN;

EID: 84860196672     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051476     Document Type: Article

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