Fluid flow triggered migration of events in the 1989 Dobi earthquake sequence of Central Afar

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 2335-2338

  Noir, J ^a   Jacques, E ^a   Bekri S ^a   Adler, P M ^a   Tapponnier, P ^a   King, G C P ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PORE PRESSURE; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; TENSORS; WAVE PROPAGATION; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; EARTHQUAKES; GEOPHYSICS;

CRITICAL PORE PRESSURE WAVE; FLUID FLOW TRIGGERED EARTHQUAKES; MACROSCOPIC FLUID DIFFUSION TENSOR;

EARTHQUAKES; FLOW OF FLUIDS;

COMPRESSIBLE FLUIDS; EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCES; FLUID DIFFUSION; PRINCIPAL EIGEN-VECTOR; SEISMIC SWARM; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

EID: 0031234365     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL02182     Document Type: Article

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