Aftershocks series monitoring of the September 18, 2004 M = 4.6 earthquake at the western Pyrenees: A case of reservoir-triggered seismicity?

Tectonophysics

Volumn 424, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 223-243

  Ruiz, M ^a   Gaspa O ^a   Gallart, J ^a   Diaz J ^a   Pulgar, J A ^b   Garcia Sansegundo J ^b   Lopez Fernandez C ^b   Gonzalez Cortina J M ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Artificial water reservoirs; Clustering analysis; Portable array; Seismicity; Triggered earthquakes; Western Pyrenees

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; FOCAL MECHANISM; FORESHOCK; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; RESERVOIR-INDUCED SEISMICITY; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PYRENEES;

EID: 33748439842     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2006.03.037     Document Type: Article

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