The Aleutian earthquake of June 10, 1996 (Mw 7.9) ruptured parts of both the Andreanof and Delarof segments

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2245-2248

  Tanioka, Yuichiro ^a   Gonzalez, Frank I ^b  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

USA, ALASKA, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS;

EID: 0032526124     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL01578     Document Type: Article

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