Long-term seismicity of the Reykjanes Ridge (North Atlantic) recorded by a regional hydrophone array

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 162, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 516-524

  Goslin, Jean ^a   Lourenço, Nuno ^b,c   Dziak, Robert P ^d   Bohnenstiehl, Delwayne R ^e   Haxel, Joe ^c   Luis, Joaquim ^b  

^a INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EUROPÉEN DE LA MER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake sequences; Long term observations; Mid ocean ridges; Seismicity

Indexed keywords

HYDROPHONE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; SEISMICITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; REYKJANES RIDGE; WORLD;

EID: 27744580005     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02678.x     Document Type: Review

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