Seismogenic plane of the northern Andean Subduction Zone from aftershocks of the Antofagasta (Chile) 1995 earthquake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2002, Pages

  Patzig, Robert ^a   Shapiro, Serge ^a   Asch, Günter ^b   Giese, Peter ^a   Wigger, Peter ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; TECTONICS;

A-PLANE; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; LARGE PARTS; NORTHERN CHILE; OCEANIC CRUST; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TOMOGRAPHIC INVERSION; WIDE-ANGLE REFLECTION;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 0037092325     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013244     Document Type: Article

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