A double-layered seismic zone in Arica, northern Chile

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1965-1968

  Comte, Diana ^a   Dorbath, Louis ^b   Pardo, Mario ^a   Monfret, Tony ^b   Haessler, Henri ^c   Rivera, Luis ^c   Frogneux, Michel ^c   Glass, Bianca ^d   Meneses, Carlos ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE TARAPACÁ   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EARTHQUAKES; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; TELEMETERING; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

ARICA; DOUBLE LAYERED SEISMIC ZONE; FAULT PLANE SOLUTIONS; MICROEARTHQUAKES; SEISMICITY;

SEISMOLOGY;

CONVERGENCE; FAULT PLANE; NAZCA PLATE; SEISMICITY; SUBDUCTION;

CHILE;

CONVERGENCE RATES; DOUBLE LAYERED; FAULT PLANE SOLUTIONS; NAZCA PLATE; NORTHERN CHILE; PARALLEL PLANES; SEISMIC ZONES;

EID: 0032708104     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900447     Document Type: Article

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