Comment on "The 1946 Hispaniola earthquake and the tectonics of the North America-Caribbean plate boundary zone, northeastern Hispaniola"

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 102, Issue B1, 1997, Pages 785-792

  Russo, R M ^a,b   Villasenor, A ^a   Dolan, James F ^a   Wald, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

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EID: 0038516202     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
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