Seismotectonics beneath the Tokyo metropolitan area, Japan: Effect of slab-slab contact and overlap on seismicity
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Waveform modeling of the slab beneath Japan
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Geophysical Research
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0148-0227
DOI: 10.1029/2008jb006101