Fault mechanisms and tectonic implication of the 1985-1987 earthquake sequence in south-western Ethiopia

Journal of Seismology

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 383-394

  Ayele, Atalay ^a,b   Arvidsson, Ronald ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Fault mechanisms; Main Ethiopian Rift; Waveform inversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001435670     PISSN: 13834649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009774331917     Document Type: Article

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