The October 2005 Georgian Bay, Canada, earthquake sequence: Mafic dykes and their role in the mechanical heterogeneity of Precambrian crust

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 457-473

  Dineva, S ^a   Eaton, D ^a   Ma, S ^a   Mereu, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; LEVEES; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; SHOCK WAVES; TECTONICS;

LEAST-SQUARES WAVEFORM INVERSION; SEISMIC ZONES; SEISMICITY;

EARTHQUAKES;

CRUST; DIKE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FOCAL MECHANISM; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MAFIC ROCK; P-WAVE; PRECAMBRIAN; S-WAVE; SEISMICITY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CANADA; GEORGIAN BAY; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 34547493891     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120060176     Document Type: Article

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