The 2008 May 29 earthquake doublet in SW Iceland

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1128-1146

  Decriem, J ^a   Arnadottir T ^a   Hooper, A ^b   Geirsson, H ^c   Sigmundsson, F ^a   Keiding, M ^a   Ofeigsson B G ^a   Hreinsdottir S ^d   Einarsson, P ^a   LaFemina, P ^e   Bennett, R A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c ICELANDIC METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE   (Iceland)

^d University of Arizona   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake source observations; Satellite geodesy; Seismicity and tectonics; Space geodetic surveys

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; COSEISMIC PROCESS; COULOMB CRITERION; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT SLIP; GEODESY; GPS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SOURCE PARAMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ICELAND; SOUTH ICELAND SEISMIC ZONE;

EID: 77953147968     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04565.x     Document Type: Article

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