Source parameters of intermediate-depth Vrancea (Romania) earthquakes from empirical Green's functions modeling

Tectonophysics

Volumn 438, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 33-56

  Oth, Adrien ^a   Wenzel, Friedemann ^a   Radulian, Mircea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EARTH PHYSICS   (Romania)

Author keywords

Empirical Green's function; Intermediate depth earthquakes; Source parameters; Stress drop; Vrancea

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GREEN FUNCTION; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC HAZARD; SOURCE PARAMETERS; STRONG MOTION;

CARPATHIANS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VRANCEA;

EID: 34248683254     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.02.016     Document Type: Article

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