How a tectonic earthquake may wake up volcanoes: Stress transfer during the 1996 earthquake-eruption sequence at the Karymsky Volcanic Group, Kamchatka

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 264, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 347-359

  Walter, Thomas R ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

caldera; eruption precursor; hazard; Karymsky volcano; stress triggering

Indexed keywords

CALDERA; ERUPTION PRECURSOR; STRESS TRIGGERING;

EARTHQUAKES; FRACTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRESSES; TECTONICS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

VOLCANOES;

ACTIVE FAULT; CALDERA; COULOMB CRITERION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FRACTURE NETWORK; STRESS CHANGE; TECTONICS; VOLCANIC EARTHQUAKE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANOLOGY;

AKADEMIA NAUK VOLCANO; EURASIA; KAMCHATKA; KARYMSKY VOLCANO; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 36348990126     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.09.006     Document Type: Article

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