The Erzincan Turkey earthquake (M(s) 6.8) of March 13, 1992 and its aftershock sequence

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 152, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 465-505

  Grosser, Helmut ^a   Baumbach, Michael ^a   Berckhemer, Hans ^b   Baier, Bodo ^b   Karahan, Ali ^b   Schelle, Holger ^a   Krüger, Frank ^c   Paulat, Arnulf ^b   Michel, Gero ^a   Demirtas, Ramazan ^d   Gencoglu, Sinan ^d   Yilmaz, Rüçhan ^d  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d Earthquake Research Department   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aftershock; Erzincan (Turkey); Erzincan earthquake; North anatolian fault; Pull apart basin

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE;

TURKEY;

EID: 0032463618     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000240050163     Document Type: Article

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