Evidence for static stress changes triggering the 1999 eruption of Cerro Negro Volcano, Nicaragua and regional aftershock sequences

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Diez M ^a   La Femina, P C ^b   Connor, C B ^a   Strauch, W ^c   Tenorio, V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c Instituto Nicaraguense de Estudios Territoriales   (Nicaragua)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKES; FAILURE ANALYSIS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; STRESS ANALYSIS; TECTONICS; GEOPHYSICS; VOLCANOES;

PRINCIPAL STRESS; SPATIAL CORRELATION; STATIC STRESSES; VOLCANISM;

VOLCANOES; FAULTING;

STATIC RESPONSE; STRESS CHANGE; VOLCANIC EARTHQUAKE;

CENTRAL AMERICA; CERRO NEGRO VOLCANO; NICARAGUA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

AFTERSHOCK SEQUENCE; COULOMB FAILURE STRESS; FOCAL MECHANISM; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV TEST; PRINCIPAL STRESS; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; STATIC STRESS; TECTONIC EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 19644401569     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021788     Document Type: Article

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