The 1999 Mw 6.0 earthquake sequence in the southern Baikal rift, Asia, and its seismotectonic implications

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 387-400

  Radziminovitch, Natalia ^a   Déverchère, Jacques ^b   Melnikova, Valentina ^a   San'kov, Vladimir ^a   Giljova, Nadezhda ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF THE EARTH S CRUST   (Russian Federation)

^b Universite de Bretagne Occidentale   (France)

^c RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Earthquake location; Fault plane solutions; Lake Baikal; Seismic stress and strain

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; SEISMOTECTONICS;

BAIKAL RIFT ZONE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; WORLD;

EARTHQUAKES; FAULTING; LAKES; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

EARTHQUAKE LOCATION; EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCES; FAULT-PLANE SOLUTIONS; HISTORICAL SEISMICITY; LAKE BAIKAL; REGIONAL STRESS FIELD; SEISMIC STRESS; STRAIN ACCUMULATIONS;

FAULT SLIPS;

EID: 18944376708     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02604.x     Document Type: Article

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