The 20 january 2007 Odaesan, Korea, earthquake sequence: Reactivation of a buried strike-slip fault?

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1120-1137

  Kim, Won Young ^a   Choi, Hoseon ^b   Noh, Myunghyun ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety (KINS)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE LOCATION; AFTERSHOCK SEQUENCE; CROSS CORRELATIONS; EARTHQUAKE RELOCATION; EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCES; EMPIRICAL GREEN'S FUNCTIONS; FAULT PLANES; FOCAL DEPTH; FOCAL MECHANISM; MAIN EVENT; MAINSHOCK; PRECAMBRIAN BASEMENT; PULSE RISETIME; SEISMIC MOMENT; SOURCE MECHANISMS; SOURCE TIME FUNCTIONS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRESS DROP; STRIKE SLIP FAULTING; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFORM MODELING;

COMPRESSIVE STRESS; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GREEN'S FUNCTION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TIME MEASUREMENT;

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FOCAL MECHANISM; SEISMIC SOURCE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 77952629222     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090069     Document Type: Article

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