Postseismic deformation following the June 2000 earthquake sequence in the south Iceland seismic zone

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 110, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1-13

  Árnadóttir, Thóra ^a   Jónsson, Sigurjón ^b   Pollitz, Fred F ^c   Jiang, Weiping ^a,d   Feigl, Kurt L ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE; POSTSEISMIC PROCESS;

ARCTIC; ICELAND;

EID: 31644435252     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JB003701     Document Type: Article

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