Successive groundwater level changes on jeju island due to the Mw 9.0 Off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku earthquake

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 2 B, 2013, Pages 1614-1621

  Lee, Soo Hyoung ^a   Ha, Kyoochul ^a   Shin, Jin Soo ^a   Ko, Kyung Seok ^a   Hamm, Se Yeong ^b  

^a Korea Institute of Geosceince and Mineral Resources   (South Korea)

^b Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER PROPERTIES; HYDROGEOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; LARGE EARTHQUAKES; PERMEABLE LAYERS; RESPONSE AMPLITUDES; SEDIMENTARY DEPOSITS; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKES; WATER-LEVEL FLUCTUATION;

AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; WATER LEVELS;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; AQUIFER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FORESHOCK; GROUNDWATER; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; WATER LEVEL;

CHEJU [CHEJU (PRV/ISL)]; CHEJU [SOUTH KOREA]; JAPAN; PACIFIC COAST [JAPAN]; SOUTH KOREA;

EID: 84877250995     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120054     Document Type: Article

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