Breaking up the hanging wall of a rift-border fault: The 2009 Karonga earthquakes, Malawi

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Biggs, J ^a   Nissen, E ^b   Craig, T ^b   Jackson, J ^b   Robinson, D P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EAST AFRICAN RIFT; MAGMATIC FLUIDS; RIFT STRUCTURE; SEISMIC PROFILES; SHALLOW EARTHQUAKES; SOURCE PARAMETERS; SPATIAL MIGRATION;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS;

EARTHQUAKES;

BREAKING WAVE; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; FAULTING; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HANGING WALL; RIFT ZONE; SEISMOLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TILT;

MALAWI;

EID: 77953590186     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043179     Document Type: Article

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