Faulting processes of historic (1917-1962) M ≥ 6.0 earthquakes along the north-central Caribbean margin

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 157, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 719-736

  Van Dusen, Shelley R ^a   Doser, Diane I ^a  

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

Author keywords

Historic earthquakes; Northern Caribbean margin

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULTING; PALEOSEISMICITY; PLATE BOUNDARY;

CARIBBEAN SEA;

EID: 0034043024     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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