Correlation of Static Stress Changes and Earthquake Occurrence in the North Aegean Region

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 167, Issue 8-9, 2010, Pages 1049-1066

  Rhoades, D A ^a   Papadimitriou, E E ^b   Karakostas, V G ^b   Console, R ^c   Murru, M ^c  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Earthquake prediction; Greece; Static stress changes

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC SLIPS; EARTHQUAKE DATA; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FAULT ORIENTATIONS; FOCAL MECHANISM; GREECE; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; NORTH AEGEAN; NORTH AEGEAN SEA; STATIC COULOMB STRESS CHANGES; STATIC STRESS; STATIC STRESS CHANGES; STRESS FIELD; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS; TECTONIC LOADING; TIME VARYING; TIME-INVARIANT MODELS;

EARTHQUAKES; FORECASTING; LOADING; TECTONICS;

STRESS ANALYSIS;

COULOMB CRITERION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FOCAL MECHANISM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; STRESS CHANGE; STRESS FIELD; TECTONICS;

AEGEAN SEA; GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 78049485636     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-010-0092-2     Document Type: Article

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