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Hirahara, K., Ooi, Y., Ando, M., Hoso, Y., Wada, Y. and Ohkura, T. (2003). Dense GPS Array observations across the Atotsugawa fault, central Japan. Geophysical Research Letters 30: doi: 10.1029/2002GL015035. issn: 0094-8276. |
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A cross-fault GPS array is established to reveal the crustal motion around the Atotsugawa fault located in a large strain rate zone, in central Japan. The array has 7 sites along a baseline of 30 km. Four-year observations delineate a characteristic rate field; the eastward and the westward motions of 5 mm/yr at the sites 25 km apart from the fault gradually decrease and the directions of the motion change towards the ENE-WSW fault strike, as approaching the fault. These observations are explained by a simple model; two 15-km thick elastic blocks are obliquely colliding along the Atotsugawa fault with a rate of 20 mm/yr in an EW direction. However, in the zone sandwiched by the Atotsugawa and the Ushikubi faults, the rates are small and the rate vectors have the fault-normal components, suggesting that the collision boundary forms a zone with lower elasticity or inelastic property. |
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Keywords
Geodesy and Gravity, Crustal movements--intraplate, Geodesy and Gravity, Space geodetic surveys, Seismology, Earthquake dynamics and mechanics, Seismology, Seismicity and seismotectonics |
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Publisher
American Geophysical Union 2000 Florida Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009-1277 USA 1-202-462-6900 1-202-328-0566 service@agu.org |
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