A stress-forecast earthquake (with hindsight), where migration of source earthquakes causes anomalies in shear-wave polarisations

Tectonophysics

Volumn 426, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 253-262

  Gao, Yuan ^a,b   Crampin, Stuart ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anomalies in polarisation; Anomalies in time delays; Shear wave splitting; Source earthquake migration; Stress accumulation; Stress forecasting earthquakes

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; MICROCRACK; S-WAVE; STRESS; WAVE SPLITTING;

ARCTIC; ICELAND;

EID: 33750218803     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2006.07.013     Document Type: Article

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