Unusual long-period Rayleigh wave radiation from a vertical dip-slip source: The 7 May 2001 North Sea earthquake

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 110, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1-6

  Selby, Neil D ^a   Eshun, Esi ^a,b,c   Patton, Howard J ^d   Douglas, Alan ^a  

^a AWE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Los Alamos National Laboratory ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EARTHQUAKE; RAYLEIGH WAVE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 29444431617     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JB003721     Document Type: Article

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