A global search for stress shadows

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Mallman, Ellen P ^a   Parsons, Tom ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTROID MOMENT TENSOR; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; FOCAL MECHANISM; SEISMIC WAVE;

EID: 61449167961     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JB005336     Document Type: Article

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