Active blind thrusts beneath the Tokyo metropolitan area: Seismic hazards and inversion tectonics

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2608-2612

  Ishiyama, Tatsuya ^a   Sato, Hiroshi ^a   Kato, Naoko ^a   Nakayama, Toshio ^a   Abe, Susumu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b 1 5 21 Otsuka   (Japan)

Author keywords

active fault; blind thrust; metropolitan Tokyo; seismic hazard; subsurface structure

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; BLIND THRUST; METROPOLITAN TOKYO; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SUBSURFACE STRUCTURES;

EARTHQUAKES; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

FAULT SLIPS;

ACTIVE FAULT; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; METROPOLITAN AREA; NEOGENE; QUATERNARY; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SLIP RATE; URBANIZATION;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TOKYO [KANTO];

EID: 84879986465     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50487     Document Type: Article

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