Preliminary analysis of the 21 February 2008 Svalbard (Norway) seismic sequence

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 63-75

  Pirli, Myrto ^a   Schweitzer, Johannes ^a   Ottemöller, Lars ^b,c   Raeesi, Mohammad ^c   Mjelde, Rolf ^c   Atakan, Kuvvet ^c   Guterch, Aleksander ^d   Gibbons, Steven J ^a   Paulsen, Berit ^a   Dȩbski, Wojciech ^d   Wiejacz, Paweł ^d   Kværna, Tormod ^a  

^a NORSAR   (Norway)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Poland)

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EID: 74949087796     PISSN: 08950695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/gssrl.81.1.63     Document Type: Article

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