Change of crustal potential energy by earthquakes: An indicator for extensional and compressional tectonics

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 15, 2000, Pages 2313-2316

  Tanimoto, T ^a   Okamoto, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GRAVITATION; POTENTIAL ENERGY; SEISMOLOGY; STRESSES; TECTONICS; EARTHQUAKES; ENERGY DISSIPATION; GEOPHYSICS; MOLECULAR PHYSICS;

COMPRESSIONAL TECTONICS; GEOLOGICAL FAULTS; GUTENBERG-RICHTER FORMULA;

EARTHQUAKES; TECTONICS;

COMPRESSION; EARTHQUAKE; ENERGY; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS;

COMPRESSIONAL; COMPRESSIONAL TECTONICS; EARTH'S INTERIOR; ENERGY GAIN; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS; POTENTIAL ENERGY CHANGES; VERTICAL DEFORMATION;

EID: 0034352736     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL011122     Document Type: Article

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