Ultralong period seismic study of the December 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and implications for regional tectonics and the subduction process

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 97, Issue 1 A SUPPL., 2007, Pages

  Stein, Seth ^a   Okal, Emile A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WAVES; TECTONICS; TSUNAMIS;

FAULT; SEISMIC MOMENT; SUBDUCTION;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; INDIAN PLATE; MICROPLATE; SEISMIC MOMENT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE 2004; SURFACE WAVE; TECTONICS; TSUNAMI;

ANDAMAN SEA; ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; MYANMAR; SOUTH ASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SRI LANKA; THAILAND;

EID: 34250016259     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120050617     Document Type: Article

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