Relocation of swarm events in the June 1987 earthquake sequence from the Lake Aswan Area in Egypt

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 160, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1245-1257

  Hassoup, Awad ^a   Denton, Paul ^b   Maguire, Peter ^b   Hassib, Gaber ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lake aswan; Precise location; Swarm activity; Waveform analyses

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; FAULT SLIP; SEISMIC WAVE;

EGYPT;

EID: 0037954288     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000240300004     Document Type: Article

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