Remote triggering of deep earthquakes in the 2002 Tonga sequences

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6951, 2003, Pages 921-925

  Tibi, Rigobert ^a   Wiens, Douglas A ^a   Inoue, Hiroshi ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); SEISMIC WAVES; STRESS ANALYSIS;

SHALLOW FAULT INTERACTIONS;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; FAULT SLIP; STRESS CHANGE; TRIGGER MECHANISM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; EARTHQUAKE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WAVEFORM;

TONGA;

EID: 0042358939     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01903     Document Type: Article

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