Microearthquake study of the broader Thessaloniki area (Northern Greece)

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 49, Issue 4-5, 2006, Pages 1081-1093

  Paradisopoulou, Parthena M ^a   Karakostas, Vassilis G ^a   Papadimitriou, Eleftheria E ^a   Tranos, Markos D ^a   Papazachos, Costantinos B ^a   Karakaisis, Georgios F ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Active tectonics; Fault plane solutions; Microseismicity; Northern Greece

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FAULT; MICROEARTHQUAKE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMOLOGY; SEISMOTECTONICS;

CENTRAL MACEDONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; THESSALONIKI [CENTRAL MACEDONIA];

THESSALONIKI;

EID: 34247337218     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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