Tomography of the 2011 Iwaki earthquake (M 7.0) and Fukushima nuclear power plant area

Solid Earth

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 43-51

  Tong, P ^a,b   Zhao, D ^a   Yang, D ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; BOUNDARY ZONES; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH RESOLUTION; LOW-VELOCITY; MAINSHOCK; OKHOTSK; POISSON'S RATIO; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; SLAB DEHYDRATION; SOURCE AREA; STATIC STRESS; STRESS VARIATIONS; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; TOMOGRAPHY METHODS; UPPER MANTLE; 2011 TOHOKU-OKI EARTHQUAKES; FINITE FREQUENCIES; LARGE EARTHQUAKES;

DEHYDRATION; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; POISSON RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; ARRIVAL TIME; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; POISSON RATIO; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMICITY; SLAB; UPPER MANTLE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; PLATE BOUNDARY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; UPPER CRUST;

JAPAN; FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; IWAKI; TOHOKU;

EID: 84862171528     PISSN: 18699510     EISSN: 18699529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/se-3-43-2012     Document Type: Article

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