Multiple seismogenic processes for high-frequency earthquakes at Katmai National Park, Alaska: Evidence from stress tensor inversions of fault-plane solutions

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 94-108

  Moran, Seth C ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; STRESS ANALYSIS; TECTONICS; TENSORS; VECTORS; VOLCANOES;

SEISMOGENIC PROCESSES;

SEISMOLOGY;

FAULT PLANE; MOMENT TENSOR; SEISMICITY; SOURCE PARAMETERS; STRESS; VOLCANISM;

ALASKA; KATMAI NATIONAL PARK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038017335     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120020113     Document Type: Article

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