Evidence for an active fault below the northwestern Alpine foreland of Switzerland

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1273-1288

  Kastrup, U ^a   Deichmann, N ^a   Frohlich A ^a   Giardini, D ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Active faults; Earthquakes; Seismichazard; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FORELAND BASIN; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MODELING; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOGRAM; SEISMOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING; TROUGH;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRIBOURG [SWITZERLAND]; MOLASSE BASIN; RHINE GRABEN; SWISS MOLASSE BASIN; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 34250206346     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03413.x     Document Type: Article

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