Observation of numerous aftershocks of an Mw 1.9 earthquake with an AE network installed in a deep gold mine in South Africa

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2009, Pages e49-e52

  Yabe, Yasuo ^a   Philipp, Joachim ^b   Nakatani, Masao ^c   Morema, Gilbert ^d   Naoi, Makoto ^c   Kawakata, Hironori ^e   Igarashi, Toshihiro ^c   Dresen, Georg ^f   Ogasawara, Hiroshi ^e  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GMuG Gesellschaft für Materialprufung und Geophysik mbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d SeismoGen cc   (South Africa)

^e RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic emission; Aftershocks; Deep South African gold mines; Main shock rupture plane; Mining induced earthquake; Semi controlled earthquake generation experiment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889711328     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352963     Document Type: Letter

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