Double seismic zone within the ridge-shaped slab beneath southwest Japan
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Waveform modeling of the slab beneath Japan
[1] The tomographic P wave model for the Japan subduction zone derived by Zhao et al. (1994) has two very striking features: a slab about 90 km thick with P wave velocities 3– 6% higher than the surrounding mantle and a mantle wedge with 6% low-velocity anomalies. We study three-component seismograms from more than 600 Hi-net stations produced by two earthquakes which occurred in the downgoing ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Earth, Planets and Space
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1343-8832,1880-5981
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2010.11.001