Two decades of spatiotemporal variations in subduction zone coupling offshore Japan

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 436, Issue , 2016, Pages 19-30

  Loveless, John P ^a   Meade, Brendan J ^b  

^a SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupling; Earthquake cycle; Japan; Subduction zone

Indexed keywords

COUPLINGS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; GEODESY; GEOPHYSICS; HAZARDS; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMOLOGY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

EARTHQUAKE CYCLES; INTERSEISMIC DEFORMATIONS; JAPAN; SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT; SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL STABILITY; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TIME DEPENDENT VARIATIONS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; PALEOSEISMICITY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

BUNGO CHANNEL; HOKKAIDO; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOKAI [HONSHU];

EID: 84953283090     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.12.033     Document Type: Article

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