Three-dimensional elastic earthquake modelling based on integrated seismological and InSAR data: Mw = 7.2 Nuweiba earthquake, gulf of Elat/Aqaba 1995 November

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 154, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 731-744

  Shamir, G ^a   Baer, G ^b   Hofstetter, A ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dead Sea tranform; Earthquakes; Elastodynamics; Gulf of Elat Aqaba; Stress distribution

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE; ELASTODYNAMICS; SEISMOLOGY; STRESS FIELD; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRANSFORM FAULT;

DEAD SEA; RED SEA;

EID: 0141857502     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.2003.01978.x     Document Type: Article

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