Fault plane solutions of the 1993 and 1995 Gulf of Aqaba earthquakes and their tectonic implications

Annali di Geofisica

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1555-1564

  Abdel Fattah, Ali K ^a,c   Hussein, Hesham M ^a   Ibrahim, Ezzeldien M ^a   Abu El Atta, Ahmad S ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY AND GEOPHYSICS   (Egypt)

^b Faculty of Electrical Engineering   (Egypt)

^c National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Aftershocks; Focal mechanism; Gulf of Aqaba; Seismicity; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; FAULT PLANE SOLUTION;

RED SEA, GULF OF AQABA;

EID: 0031400292     PISSN: 03652556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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