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Volume 58 Supplement 1

Special Issue: Special Section for the 2005 West Off Fukuoka Prefecture Earthquake (1)

Spatial distribution of F-net moment tensors for the 2005 West Off Fukuoka Prefecture Earthquake determined by the extended method of the NIED F-net routine

Earth, Planets and Space volume 58, pages 63–67 (2006)Cite this article

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The 2005 West Off Fukuoka Prefecture Earthquake with a Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) magnitude (MJMA) of 7.0 occurred on March 20, 2005. We determined moment tensor solutions, using a surface wave with an extended method of the NIED F-net routine processing. The horizontal distance to the station is rounded to the nearest interval of 1 km, and the variance reduction approach is applied to a focal depth from 2 km with an interval of 1 km. We obtain the moment tensors of 101 events with (MJMA) exceeding 3.0 and spatial distribution of these moment tensors. The focal mechanism of aftershocks is mainly of the strike-slip type. The alignment of the epicenters in the rupture zone of the main-shock is oriented between N110°E and N130°E, which is close to the strike of the main-shock’s moment tensor solutions (N122°E). These moment tensor solutions of intermediatesized aftershocks around the focal region represent basic and important information concerning earthquakes in investigating regional tectonic stress fields, source mechanisms and so on.

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    Takumi Matsumoto, Yoshihiro Ito, Hirotoshi Matsubayashi & Shoji Sekiguchi

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Matsumoto, T., Ito, Y., Matsubayashi, H. et al. Spatial distribution of F-net moment tensors for the 2005 West Off Fukuoka Prefecture Earthquake determined by the extended method of the NIED F-net routine. Earth Planet Sp 58, 63–67 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1186/BF03351915

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