Anomalous seismicity in the lower crust of the Santiago Basin, Chile

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 175, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 17-25

  Leyton, Felipe ^a   Pérez, Adriana ^a   Campos, Jaime ^a   Rauld, Rodrigo ^a   Kausel, Edgar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Anomalous seismicity; Seismic cluster; Waveform correlation

Indexed keywords

ANOMALOUS SEISMICITY; APPARENT STRESS; CENTRAL CHILES; COMPRESSIONAL; CORNER FREQUENCIES; LOCAL NETWORKS; LOWER CRUSTS; METROPOLITAN AREAS; SEISMIC CLUSTER; SEISMIC ENERGIES; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SEISMIC MOMENTS; SOURCE PARAMETERS; SUBDUCTION ENVIRONMENTS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; WAVEFORM CORRELATION;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EARTHQUAKES;

ASPERITY; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMICITY; SOURCE PARAMETERS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CHILE; METROPOLITANA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 67349206108     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2008.03.016     Document Type: Article

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