Source mechanism of the 2000 November 15 Lake Van earthquake (Mw = 5.6) in eastern Turkey and its seismotectonic implications

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 749-763

  Pinar, Ali ^a,b   Honkura, Y ^b   Kuge, K ^c   Matsushima, M ^b   Sezgin, N ^a   Yilmazer, M ^d   Ogutcu Z ^d  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aftershocks; Complex earthquakes; Lake Van; Near field waveform analysis

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; NORMAL FAULT; SEISMOTECTONICS; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

EURASIA; LAKE VAN; TURKEY;

EID: 34547183994     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03445.x     Document Type: Article

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