Hydroacoustic detection of volcanic ocean-island earthquakes

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 167, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1529-1536

  Helffrich, George ^a   Heleno, Sandra I N ^b   Faria, Bruno ^b,c   Fonseca, João F B D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c Institute Nacional de Meteorologia e Geofisica Delegacao de Sao Vicente   (Cape Verde)

Author keywords

Hydroacoustics; Seismicity; Synthetic waveforms; Volcanic activity

Indexed keywords

DETECTION METHOD; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MONITORING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEISMICITY; VOLCANIC EARTHQUAKE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CAPE VERDE; MACARONESIA;

EID: 33845303504     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03228.x     Document Type: Article

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