Modeling of slow slip events along the deep subduction zone in the Kii Peninsula and Tokai regions, southwest Japan

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Shibazaki, Bunichiro ^a   Obara, Kazushige ^b   Matsuzawa, Takanori ^c   Hirose, Hitoshi ^c  

^a International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KII PENINSULA; KINKI; TOKAI [HONSHU];

EID: 84862858723     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JB009083     Document Type: Article

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