The 1978 Brooks Peninsula, Vancouver Island Earthquakes

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1011-1023

  Spindler, Chris ^a,b   Rogers, Garry C ^a,b   Cassidy, John F ^a  

^a Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; BROOKS PENINSULA EARTHQUAKES 1978; EXPLORER PLATE; FOCAL MECHANISM; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; TECTONICS;

CANADA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, VANCOUVER ISLAND, BROOKS PENINSULA;

EID: 0031420033     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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