A tomography image of the Aegean region (Greece) derived from inversion of macroseismic intensity data

Annali di Geofisica

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 99-110

  Stavrakakis, George N ^a   Drakatos, George ^a   Karantonis, George ^a   Papanastassiou, Dimitris ^a  

^a NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

3D; Greece; Structure; Tomography

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; INVERSION; SEISMIC INTENSITY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

AEGEAN SEA; GREECE;

EID: 0031448601     PISSN: 03652556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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