Seismicity patterns of earthquake swarms due to fluid intrusion and stress triggering

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 159, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1090-1096

  Hainzl, Sebastian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fluids in rock; Geostatistics; Seismic modelling; Seismic stress; Seismicity; Synthetic earthquake catalogues

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE SWARM; FLUID INJECTION; SEISMICITY; STRESS CHANGE;

EID: 10644251757     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2004.02463.x     Document Type: Article

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