Seismic imaging of the Southwest Japan arc from the Nankai trough to the Japan Sea

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 216, Issue , 2013, Pages 59-73

  Liu, Xin ^a,b,c   Zhao, Dapeng ^a   Li, Sanzhong ^b,c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Asperity; Earthquakes; Megathrust zone; Nankai trough; Southwest Japan; SP depth phase; Subduction zones

Indexed keywords

ASPERITY; DEPTH PHASE; MEGATHRUST; NANKAI TROUGHS; SOUTHWEST JAPAN; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

COUPLINGS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

ARRIVAL TIME; ASPERITY; COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; LOW VELOCITY ZONE; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEAMOUNT; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THRUST; TROUGH;

CHINA; NANKAI; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN; TIANJIN;

EID: 84873601180     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2013.01.003     Document Type: Article

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