Relocation of shallow earthquakes in southern Alaska using Joint Hypocenter Determination method

Journal of Seismology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 87-102

  Ratchkovsky, Natalia A ^a   Pujol, Jose ^b   Biswas, Niren N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Earthquake location; Fault plane solutions; Seismicity; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002102899     PISSN: 13834649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009758721717     Document Type: Article

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