Nonplanar fault source modeling of the 2008 Mw 6.9 iwate-miyagi inland earthquake in northeast Japan

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 507-518

  Abe, Takahiro ^a   Furuya, Masato ^a   Takada, Youichiro ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK DISTRIBUTIONS; ARRAY-TYPE; CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; DATA SETS; DEFORMATION SIGNAL; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; FAULT GEOMETRY; GPS DATA; INLAND EARTHQUAKES; L-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; PRELIMINARY MODEL; RANGE OFFSET; RUPTURE PROCESS; SEISMIC MOMENT; SINGLE SEGMENTS; SOURCE MODELING; SOURCE MODELS;

DEFORMATION; FAULTING; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EARTHQUAKES;

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT ZONE; GPS; GREEN FUNCTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMOLOGY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

HONSHU; IWATE; JAPAN; MIYAGI; TOHOKU;

EID: 84873519353     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120133     Document Type: Article

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