Earthquakes in Switzerland and surrounding regions during 2008

Swiss Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 505-514

  Deichmann, Nicolas ^a   Clinton, John ^a   Husen, Stephan ^a   Haslinger, Florian ^a   Fäh, Donat ^a   Giardini, Domenico ^a   Kästli, Philipp ^a   Kradolfer, Urs ^a   Marschall, Iris ^a   Wiemer, Stefan ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Earthquakes; Focal mechanisms; Moment tensors; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

BASALT; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; FOCAL MECHANISM; MOMENT TENSOR; QUARRY; SEISMICITY;

SWITZERLAND; VALAIS;

EID: 72549117404     PISSN: 16618726     EISSN: 16618734     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00015-009-1339-8     Document Type: Article

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