Insights into the kinematics of a volcanic caldera drop: Probabilistic finite-source inversion of the 1996 Bárdarbunga, Iceland, earthquake

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 297, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 607-615

  Fichtner, Andreas ^a   Tkalčić, Hrvoje ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

B rdarbunga; Finite source inversion; Iceland; Seismology; Spectral element method; Volcanic caldera

Indexed keywords

FINITE SOURCES; ICELANDICS; ICELANDS; INFORMATION CONCERNING; MAGMA CHAMBER; P WAVES; REALISTIC MODEL; RUPTURE PROPAGATION; SEISMOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS; SHEAR PROPAGATION; SPECTRAL ELEMENT METHOD; SPECTRAL-ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; STRUCTURAL HETEROGENEITY; UPPER MANTLE; VOLCANIC CALDERA; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

BARIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROPS; EARTHQUAKES; KINEMATICS; SEISMIC WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

VOLCANOES;

CALDERA; KINEMATICS; MAGMA CHAMBER; P-WAVE; PROBABILITY; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMOLOGY; SUBSIDENCE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ICELAND;

EID: 77956012597     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.07.013     Document Type: Article

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