Flexural stresses beneath Hawaii: Implications for the October 15, 2006, earthquakes and magma ascent

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 23, 2007, Pages

  McGovern, Patrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LITHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STIFFNESS; STRESS ANALYSIS; TECTONICS; VISCOELASTICITY; VOLCANOES;

FAULT-AFTERSHOCK RELATIONSHIP; FLEXURAL STRESS;

SEISMOLOGY;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAGMA; SEISMICITY; UNDERPLATING;

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 39049105589     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031305     Document Type: Article

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