What caused the March 25, 1998 Antarctic plate earthquake?: Inferences from regional stress and strain rate fields

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 15, 2000, Pages 2297-2300

  Kreemer, C ^a   Holt, W E ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGLACIATION; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; INTRAPLATE PROCESS;

ANTARCTICA;

EARTHQUAKES; GEOPHYSICS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; KINEMATICS; STRAIN RATE; STRESSES; TECTONICS;

DRIVING FORCES; GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL ENERGY; KINEMATIC MODEL; STRAIN ORIENTATIONS; STRESS AND STRAIN RATE; STRESS PERTURBATIONS; TRIGGERING MECHANISM; TRIPLE JUNCTION;

STRAIN RATE; EARTHQUAKES;

ANTARTIC PLATE EARTHQUAKE; DEGLACIATION;

EID: 0034352733     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL011188     Document Type: Article

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