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Volume 57 Supplement 4

Special Issue: Special Section for the 2004 off the Kii peninsula earthquakes (2)

Spatial distribution of centroid moment tensor solutions for the 2004 off Kii peninsula earthquakes

Earth, Planets and Space volume 57, pages 351–356 (2005)Cite this article

Abstract

Two large intraplate earthquakes (MW 7.0 and 7.3) occurred off the southeastern Kii Peninsula on September 5, 2004. We determined the centroid moment tensors of these earthquakes and their aftershocks. Earthquakes can be divided into two categories: (1) the reverse-fault type with a range in focal depth from 5 km to 20 km; and (2) earthquakes with a near-vertical nodal plane and a focal depth shallower than 5 km. Earthquakes of type (1) are distributed inside the Philippine Sea plate beneath the Nankai trough, while normal-fault events predominate in the other regions along the trough. The distribution of type (2) events shows two clear lineaments with strikes of NNW-SSE to the north and NE-SW to the west of the focal area. These lineament strikes coincide approximately with strikes at the nodal planes of such events.

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  1. National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, 3-1, Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0006, Japan

    Yoshihiro Ito, Takumi Matsumoto, Hisanori Kimura, Hirotoshi Matsubayashi, Kazushige Obara & Shoji Sekiguchi

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Ito, Y., Matsumoto, T., Kimura, H. et al. Spatial distribution of centroid moment tensor solutions for the 2004 off Kii peninsula earthquakes. Earth Planet Sp 57, 351–356 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1186/BF03352575

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Key words

  • Centroid moment tensor
  • broadband seismometer
  • tiltmeter
  • seismicity