Interplate coupling along the Nankai Trough, southwest Japan, inferred from inversion analyses of GPS data: Effects of subducting plate geometry and spacing of hypothetical ocean-bottom GPS stations

Tectonophysics

Volumn 600, Issue , 2013, Pages 165-174

  Yoshioka, Shoichi ^a   Matsuoka, Yoshiko ^b  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Sanno Grand Bldg   (Japan)

Author keywords

Geometric model; GPS; Inversion; Ocean bottom GPS station; Slip deficit rate; Southwest Japan

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE'S BAYESIAN INFORMATION CRITERIONS; GEOMETRIC MODELS; HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL DISPLACEMENT; HORIZONTAL DISPLACEMENTS; INTERPLATE COUPLING; INVERSION; OCEAN-BOTTOM GPS STATION; SOUTHWEST JAPAN;

COUPLINGS; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; GEOMETRY; OCEANOGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DISPLACEMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEODESY; GEOMETRY; GPS; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLATE TECTONICS; SLIP RATE; SUBDUCTION;

JAPAN; NANKAI TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINE SEA; SHIKOKU;

EID: 84879795926     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2013.01.023     Document Type: Article

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