Earthquake occurrence along the Java trench in front of the onset of the Wadati-Benioff zone: Beginning of a new subduction cycle?

Tectonics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Špičák, Aleš ^a   Hanuš, Václav ^a   Vaněk, Jiří ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIAN PLATE; CONVERGENT MARGIN; EARTHQUAKE; GPS; SEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBDUCTION; TRENCH;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDONESIAN SEAS; JAVA TRENCH; PACIFIC OCEAN; SUNDA ARC;

EID: 34249785942     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005TC001867     Document Type: Article

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