Moment release in the Lower Rhine Embayment, Germany: Seismological perspective of the deformation process

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 160, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 901-909

  Schmedes, J ^a   Hainzl, S ^a   Reamer, S K ^b   Scherbaum, F ^a   Hinzen, K G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fault tectonics; Seismic moment; Synthetic earthquake catalogues

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; FOCAL MECHANISM; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC MOMENT;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; WORLD;

EID: 15944428556     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02525.x     Document Type: Article

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