Rupture process and aftershocks relocation of the 8 June 2008 Mw 6.4 earthquake in northwest Peloponnese, western Greece

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3374-3389

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

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND SEISMOMETERS; DEPTH RANGE; EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCES; FAULT STRUCTURE; LEAST-SQUARES INVERSION; LOWER CRUST; MAIN EVENT; MAINSHOCK; MAXIMUM SLIP; MOMENT TENSORS; PELOPONNESE; REGIONAL NETWORKS; RUPTURE PROCESS; SEISMOGENIC FAULTS; SLIP DISTRIBUTION; STRIKE-SLIP MECHANISM; THREE-COMPONENT; TIME WINDOWS; TRAVEL TIME; WESTERN GREECE;

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS; SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

AFTERSHOCK; DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MOMENT TENSOR; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SEISMICITY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TRAVEL TIME;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; PELOPONNESE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 70450220269     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080301     Document Type: Article

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