The 1995 November 22, Mw 7.2 gulf of elat earthquake cycle revisited

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 175, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1040-1054

  Baer, Gidon ^a   Funning, Gareth J ^b,d   Shamir, Gadi ^a   Wright, Tim J ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Earthquake dynamics; Earthquake source observations; Radar interferometry; Seismic cycle

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; DATA INVERSION; DATA SET; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; FAULT GEOMETRY; GEODESY; NORMAL FAULT; POSTSEISMIC PROCESS; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOLOGY; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

ASIA; DEAD SEA; EURASIA; GULF OF AQABA; INDIAN OCEAN; MIDDLE EAST; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

EID: 57049113382     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03901.x     Document Type: Article

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