The puzzle of the 1996 Bárdarbunga, Iceland, earthquake: No volumetric component in the source mechanism

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 3077-3085

  Tkalčić, Hrvoje ^a   Dreger, Douglas S ^b   Foulger, Gillian R ^c   Julian, Bruce R ^d  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTROID MOMENT TENSORS; DIPOLE COMPONENT; HOT SPOT; ICELANDS; LINEAR VECTORS; MOMENT TENSOR INVERSION; MOMENT TENSOR INVERSION METHODS; PLANAR FAULT; SEISMIC WAVEFORMS; SHEAR SLIP; SOURCE MECHANISMS; STRUCTURAL MODELS; VOLCANIC EARTHQUAKES; VOLUME CHANGE; VOLUMETRIC COMPONENTS;

BARIUM; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MODEL STRUCTURES; TENSORS; VOLCANOES;

EARTHQUAKES;

CALDERA; DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FOCAL MECHANISM; LINEARITY; MOMENT TENSOR; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOURCE PARAMETERS; VECTOR; VOLCANIC EARTHQUAKE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ICELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 70349850790     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080361     Document Type: Article

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