An improved method for the determination of the tectonic stress field from focal mechanism data

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 841-849

  Yin, Z M ^a,b  

^a Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Earthquake source mechanism; Fault plane solution; Inversion; Stress distribution

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; FAULT PLANE; FOCAL MECHANISM; INVERSION; SOLUTION; STRESS FIELD;

EID: 0029751634     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1996.tb06027.x     Document Type: Article

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