Seismic sequence near Zakynthos Island, Greece, April 2006: Identification of the activated fault plane

Tectonophysics

Volumn 480, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 23-32

  Serpetsidaki, A ^a   Sokos, E ^a   Tselentis, G A ^a   Zahradnik, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Centroid moment tensor; Fault plane; Focal mechanisms; Iterative deconvolution; Waveform inversion; Zakynthos Island

Indexed keywords

CENTROID MOMENT TENSORS; FAULT PLANES; FOCAL MECHANISM; ITERATIVE DECONVOLUTION; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

CONVOLUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEISMOLOGY; TENSORS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CENTROID MOMENT TENSOR; DATA INVERSION; DECONVOLUTION; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; FAULT PLANE; FAULT ZONE; FAULTING; FOCAL MECHANISM; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

GREECE; IONIAN ISLANDS; IONIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; ZAKYNTHOS [IONIAN ISLANDS];

EID: 72649084276     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.09.024     Document Type: Review

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