Tectonic analysis of mine tremor mechanisms from the upper Silesian Coal Basin

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 217-238

  Sagan, Grzegorz ^a   Teper, LesŁaw ^a   Zuberek, Waclaw M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Fault tectonics; Focal mechanism; Mining induced seismicity; Seismic moment tensor; Upper silesia

Indexed keywords

EID: 0342855099     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf00877479     Document Type: Article

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