The 19 January 1995 Tauramena (Colombia) earthquake: Geometry and stress regime

Tectonophysics

Volumn 363, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 159-180

  Dimate, Cristina ^a,b,c   Rivera, Luis ^b   Taboada, Alfredo ^d   Delouis, Bertrand ^c   Osorio, Alonso ^a   Jimenez, Eduardo ^a   Fuenzalida, Andres ^a   Cisternas, Armando ^b   Gomez, Isabel ^a  

^a SERVICIO GEOLÓGICO COLOMBIANO   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Eastern Cordillera; Inversion tectonics; Seismotectonics; Stress tensor inversion; Tauramena earthquake

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE; FOCAL MECHANISM; GEOMETRY; INVERSION TECTONICS; MOMENT TENSOR; SEISMICITY; STRESS;

COLOMBIA; TAURAMENA;

EID: 0037435081     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(02)00670-4     Document Type: Article

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