Accurate relative earthquake hypocenters reveal structure of the Burma subduction zone

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2815-2827

  Stork, A L ^a,b   Selby, Neil D ^c   Heyburn, R ^a,c   Searle, M P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b BMT Isis Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c AWE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; TECTONICS;

CENTROID MOMENT TENSORS; DEPTH DETERMINATIONS; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGS; FIRST ARRIVALS; GEOLOGICAL FEATURES; HIMALAYA; LATERAL DEFORMATIONS; STRIKE-SLIP EARTHQUAKES; STRUCTURAL DETAILS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; SUMATRA; SUNDALAND; TECTONIC PROCESS; TELESEISMIC; TIME DIFFERENCES; WAVE MODELING;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; ESTIMATION METHOD; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE 2004; TECTONIC SETTING; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TRENCH;

ANDAMANS; ANDAMANS AND NICOBARS; ASIA; EURASIA; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; MYANMAR; SOUTH ASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 63049131356     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080088     Document Type: Article

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