Seismicity of the Prince William Sound region for over thirty years following the 1964 great Alaskan earthquake

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 154, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 593-632

  Doser, Diane I ^a   Veilleux, Annette M ^a   Velasquez, Monique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaskan earthquakes; Body waves; Subduction

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; SEISMICITY; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

ALASKA; PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032747090     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000240050246     Document Type: Article

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