Relocation of earthquakes in the Cook Inlet area, South Central Alaska, using the joint Hypocenter determination method

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 620-636

  Ratchkovsky, Natalia A ^a   Pujol, Jose ^b   Biswas, Niren N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE RELOCATION; HYPOCENTRE DETERMINATION; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

USA, ALASKA, COOK INLET;

EID: 0031457196     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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