Moment-tensor inversion for offshore earthquakes east of Taiwan and their implications to regional collision

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 3619-3622

  Kao, Honn ^a,b   Jian, Pei Ru ^b   Ma, Kuo Fong ^a   Huang, Bor Shouh ^b   Liu, Chun Chi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE STRESS; EARTHQUAKES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TECTONICS; TENSORS;

OFFSHORE EARTHQUAKES;

SEISMOLOGY;

COLLISION ZONE; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SEISMICITY; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

PHILIPPINE SEA; TAIWAN;

EID: 0032194137     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02803     Document Type: Article

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