Microseismic activity and seismotectonics of Heraklion area (central Crete Island, Greece)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 308, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 237-248

  Delibasis, N ^a   Ziazia, M ^a   Voulgaris, N ^a   Papadopoulos, T ^a   Stavrakakis, G ^b   Papanastassiou, D ^b   Drakatos, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Geodynamic Inst of the Natl O   (Greece)

Author keywords

Crete; Greece; Hellenic Trench; Seismotectonics

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; EPICENTER; FOCAL MECHANISM; ISLAND ARC; SEISMOTECTONICS; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

GREECE;

EID: 0032694936     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00076-1     Document Type: Article

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