Rupture complexity of a moderate intraplate earthquake in the Alps: The 1996 M5 Epagny-Annecy earthquake

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 152-160

  Courboulex, Françoise ^a   Deichmann, Nicholas ^b   Gariel, Jean Christophe ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Alps; Earthquake source mechanism; Green's function; Intraplate; Rupture

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

FRANCE;

EID: 0033397244     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.1999.00931.x     Document Type: Article

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