Moment tensor solutions of the 1994 to 1996 Double Spring Flat, Nevada, earthquake sequence and implications for local tectonic models

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1363-1378

  Ichinose, Gene A ^a   Smith, Kenneth D ^a   Anderson, John G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; MOMENT TENSOR; TECTONICS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032436832     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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