Intraplate earthquake swarm in Belo Jardim, NE Brazil: Reactivation of a major Neoproterozoic shear zone (Pernambuco Lineament)

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 180, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1303-1312

  Lopes, Afonso E V ^a   Assumpção, Marcelo ^a   do Nascimento, Aderson F ^c   Ferreira, Joaquim Mendes ^b   Menezes, Eduardo A S ^b   Barbosa, José Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^c Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Geofísica do Petróleo INCT GP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Continental tectonics; Earthquake source observations; Extensional; Neotectonics; Seismic anisotropy; Seismicity and tectonics

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT PLANE; FAULT ZONE; FOCAL MECHANISM; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; LINEAMENT; NEOTECTONICS; NORMAL FAULT; PROTEROZOIC; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC ZONE; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SHEAR ZONE; STRESS FIELD;

BRAZIL; PERNAMBUCO;

EID: 77949935023     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04485.x     Document Type: Article

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