Coseismic velocity change in and around the focal region of the 2008 Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku earthquake

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Takagi, Ryota ^a   Okada, Tomomi ^a   Nakahara, Hisashi ^a   Umino, Norihito ^a   Hasegawa, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; CODA; COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FOCAL MECHANISM; GEOPHYSICAL ARRAY; INTERFEROMETRY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRONG MOTION; WAVE VELOCITY;

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EID: 84863446649     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JB009252     Document Type: Article

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