Foreshock migration preceding the 2016 Mw 7.0 Kumamoto earthquake, Japan

Abstract We investigated the spatiotemporal evolution of an earthquake sequence following a series of large shallow intraplate earthquakes, including a Mw 6.2 foreshock and Mw 7.0 main shock, in the Kumamoto area of Kyushu, SW Japan. To more precisely characterize the evolution of the earthquake seq...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Aitaro Kato, Jun'ichi Fukuda, Shigeki Nakagawa, Kazushige Obara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2016-09-01
Series:Geophysical Research Letters
Subjects:
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL070079
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!