Elastic and visco-elastic stress triggering in the South Iceland Seismic Zone due to large earthquakes since 1706

Tectonophysics

Volumn 447, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 127-135

  Richwalski, Sandra M ^a,b   Roth, Frank ^b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coulomb stress change; Dislocations; Modelling; Rheology; Shear stress; SISZ

Indexed keywords

COULOMB CRITERION; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; MODELING; SEISMIC ZONE; SHEAR STRESS; STRESS CHANGE; TRIGGER MECHANISM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ICELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 47049114323     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2006.06.009     Document Type: Article

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