Foreshock migration preceding the 2016 Mw 7.0 Kumamoto earthquake, Japan

Abstract We investigated the spatiotemporal evolution of an earthquake sequence following a series of large shallow intraplate earthquakes, including a Mw 6.2 foreshock and Mw 7.0 main shock, in the Kumamoto area of Kyushu, SW Japan. To more precisely characterize the evolution of the earthquake seq...

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Published in:	Geophysical Research Letters
Main Authors:	Aitaro Kato, Jun'ichi Fukuda, Shigeki Nakagawa, Kazushige Obara
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Wiley 2016-09-01
Subjects:	the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake, Japan foreshock migration propagation of aseismic slip stress triggering seismicity matched filter technique
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL070079