Source process and tectonic implications of the 8 January 2006 (Mw 6.7) Kythira earthquake, southern Greece

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 175, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 167-182

  Konstantinou, K I ^a   Lee, S J ^b   Evangelidis, C P ^c   Melis, N S ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aegean; Greece; Kythira; Moment rate function; Relocation; Slip distribution

Indexed keywords

AEGEAN; GREECE; KYTHIRA; MOMENT RATE FUNCTION; SLIP DISTRIBUTION;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

AFTERSHOCK; ALGORITHM; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOGRAPH; SEISMOTECTONICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRAVEL TIME;

ATTICA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; KYTHIRA; SOUTHERN AEGEAN; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 67349263067     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2009.03.010     Document Type: Article

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