The 6 June 2003 Bardwell, Kentucky, earthquake sequence: Evidence for a locally perturbed stress field in the Mississippi embayment

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 431-445

  Horton, Stephen P ^a   Kim, Won Young ^b   Withers, Mitch ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE STRESS; DATA ACQUISITION; STRESS ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

AFTERSHOCKS; SEISMIC NETWORKS; STATIC STRESS; STRESS INVERSION;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; SOURCE PARAMETERS; STRESS;

MISSISSIPPI EMBAYMENT; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 20444365119     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120040052     Document Type: Article

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