Interseismic seafloor crustal deformation immediately above the source region of anticipated megathrust earthquake along the Nankai Trough, Japan

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Tadokoro, Keiichi ^a   Ikuta, Ryoya ^b   Watanabe, Tsuyoshi ^a   Ando, Masataka ^c   Okuda, Takashi ^a   Nagai, Satoru ^a   Yasuda, Kenji ^a   Sakata, Tsuyoshi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKES;

COUPLING RATIOS; CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; GEODETIC OBSERVATION; INTER-SEISMIC PERIODS; MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKES; PLATE INTERFACES; SEA FLOOR; SOURCE REGION; SOUTHWESTERN JAPAN; VELOCITY VECTORS; NANKAI TROUGHS;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL MOVEMENT; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GEODETIC NETWORK; GPS; SEAFLOOR; TECTONIC PLATE; THRUST FAULT; EARTHQUAKE; PLATE TECTONICS;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KII PENINSULA; KINKI; KUMANO BASIN; NANKAI TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84861679998     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051696     Document Type: Article

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