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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Moment-radius-stress drop relations and temporal changes in the regional stress from the analysis of small earthquakes in the Matsushiro region, southwest Honshu, Japan

Abstract

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Moment-radius-stress drop relations and composite focal mechanisms were determined for 33 small, shallow, strike slip earthquakes (1.7$MLS4.3) in the Matsushiro region of southwest Honshu, Japan during the period August 1971 through September 1974. Estimates of the scalar moment derived from deconvolved SH displacement amplitude spectra range from 1018 to 1022 dyne-cm. The apparent stress ranges from 0.001 to 3.00 bars and the relationship between apparent stress and moment is approximately linear with a slope of 1.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Ph. D.
Level thesis:degree_level
doctoral
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Geophysics
Department dc:contributor.department
Geophysics
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Year dc:date.issued
1985

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Dysart, Paul S.
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Snoke, J. A.
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Sacks, I. Selwyn
  • Bollinger, G. A.
  • Costain, John K.
  • Robinson, Edwin S.

Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright
Language dc:language.iso
en_US

Identifiers

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Handle dc:identifier.uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53873
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/53873

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Dysart, Paul S.. Moment-radius-stress drop relations and temporal changes in the regional stress from the analysis of small earthquakes in the Matsushiro region, southwest Honshu, Japan. doctoral thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53873