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Determination of the location of faulting beneath Kobe During the 1995 Hyogo‐Ken Nanbu, Japan, Earthquake from near‐source particle motion
Author(s) -
Sekiguchi Haruko,
Irikura Kojiro,
Iwata Tomotaka,
Kakehi Yasumaro,
Hoshiba Mitsuyuki
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/96gl00251
Subject(s) - geology , seismology , geodetic datum , fault plane , fault (geology) , geodesy , surface rupture
We constrained the location of faulting beneath Kobe during the 1995 Hyogo‐ken Nanbu (Kobe), Japan, earthquake by investigating the particle motion of strong motion records from sites close to the causative fault. The intersection of the earth's surface and the extension of buried fault plane is consistent with known active fault lines but not with the severely damaged zone. The intersection line also agrees with geodetic data.