Status of the crustal stress in Egpyt as inferred from earthquake focal mechanisms and borehole breakouts

Tectonophysics

Volumn 343, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 49-61

  Badawy, Ahmed ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY AND GEOPHYSICS   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Breakouts; Crustal stress; Egypt; Focal mechanisms; Stress regime

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; FAULT PLANE; FOCAL MECHANISM; LITHOSPHERE; PLATE BOUNDARY; STRESS FIELD; TECTONIC SETTING;

EGYPT;

EID: 0035682231     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(01)00199-8     Document Type: Article

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