Three-dimensional mechanical models for the June 2000 earthquake sequence in the south Iceland seismic zone

Tectonophysics

Volumn 457, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 12-29

  Dubois, Loïc ^a   Feigl, Kurt L ^a   Komatitsch, Dimitri ^b,c   Árnadóttir, Thóra ^d   Sigmundsson, Freysteinn ^d  

^a IRAP   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

^c INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Co seismic slip estimation; Coulomb stress changes; Finite element method; Lithospheric heterogeneity influences; Seismicity migration; South Iceland seismic zone

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC PROCESS; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FORESHOCK; GPS; RHEOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMIC ZONE; SEISMICITY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ICELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 49449099933     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.05.020     Document Type: Article

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