Highland Boundary Fault Zone: Tectonic implications of the Aberfoyle earthquake sequence of 2003

Tectonophysics

Volumn 430, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 83-95

  Ottemoller L ^a   Thomas, C W ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Empirical Green's function; Highland Boundary Fault; Multiple event location; Waveform correlation

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; FAULT PLANE; FAULT ZONE; FOCAL MECHANISM; GREEN FUNCTION; SEISMICITY; STRESS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33846375858     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2006.11.002     Document Type: Article

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