CHARACTERISTICS OF DENSE NESTS OF DEEP AND INTERMEDIATE-DEPTH SEISMICITY

Advances in Geophysics

Volumn 46, Issue C, 2003, Pages 237-278

  Zarifi, Zoya ^a   Havskov, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; FAULTING; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMICITY; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

BUCARAMANGA; COLOMBIA; SANTANDER [COLOMBIA];

EID: 33644561874     PISSN: 00652687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2687(03)46004-4     Document Type: Review

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