Slip distribution of the Lake Tennyson earthquake, New Zealand, as inferred from static stress changes and off fault aftershocks

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1961-1964

  McGinty, Peter ^a   Robinson, Russell ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; FAULTING; GEOPHYSICS; LAKES; CORRELATION METHODS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; SEISMOGRAPHS; SHEAR STRESS; STRAIN; TENSORS;

AFTERSHOCK SEQUENCE; COULOMB FAILURE STRESS; EARTHQUAKE AFTERSHOCKS; FAULT PLANES; GOOD CORRELATIONS; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; SLIP DISTRIBUTION; STATIC STRESS;

FAULT SLIPS; SEISMOLOGY;

COULOMB FAILURE STRESS; OFF FAULT AFTERSHOCKS; SLIP DISTRIBUTION; STATIC STRESS CHANGES;

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT PLANE; FAULT SLIP; STRESS CHANGE;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0032757161     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900415     Document Type: Article

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