Empirical relationships between aftershock area dimensions and magnitude for earthquakes in the Mediterranean Sea region

Tectonophysics

Volumn 403, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 95-115

  Konstantinou, Konstantinos I ^a,b   Papadopoulos, Gerassimos A ^b   Fokaefs, Anna ^b   Orphanogiannaki, Katerina ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aftershock area; Fault dimensions; Mediterranean; Seismic hazard; Stress drop; Surface ruptures

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; SEISMIC MOMENT; STRESS ANALYSIS;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 21044453752     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2005.04.001     Document Type: Article

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