Fault re-activation, stress interaction and rupture propagation of the 1981 Corinth earthquake sequence

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 142, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 573-585

  Hubert, Aurélia ^a   King, Geoffrey ^a   Armijo, Rolando ^a   Meyer, Bertrand ^a   Papanastasiou, Dimitri ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Corinth Greece; Earthquake; Faults; Models; Rupture; Stress drops

Indexed keywords

CORINTH EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCE 1981; FAULT REACTIVATION; RUPTURE PROCESSES; SOURCE PARAMETERS; STRESS DROP;

GREECE, PERAHORA PENINSULA;

EID: 0030302313     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0012-821x(96)00108-2     Document Type: Article

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