An insight into the Bucaramanga nest

Tectonophysics

Volumn 443, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 93-105

  Zarifi, Zoya ^a   Havskov, Jens ^a   Hanyga, Andrzej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bucaramanga nest; Collision; Concentrated stress field; Stress inversion

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOCAL MECHANISM; MICROEARTHQUAKE; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMICITY; SLAB; STRESS FIELD; SUBDUCTION;

BUCARAMANGA; COLOMBIA; SANTANDER [COLOMBIA]; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 34548433477     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.06.004     Document Type: Article

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