How the state of stress varies in the Wadati-Benioff zone: Indications from focal mechanisms in the Wadati-Benioff zone beneath Sumatra and Java

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 909-930

  Slancova, A ^a   Spicak, A ^a   Hanus, V ^a   Vanek, J ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Fault plane solutions; Java; Seismotectonics; Stress distribution; Subduction; Sumatra

Indexed keywords

BENIOFF ZONE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FOCAL MECHANISM; STRESS FIELD;

INDONESIA;

EID: 0034532461     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0956-540X.2000.01304.x     Document Type: Article

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