Evaluation of earthquake triggering during the 2005-2008 earthquake sequence on Qeshm Island, Iran

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Lohman, R B ^a   Barnhart, W D ^a  

^a Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTROID MOMENT TENSOR; COSEISMIC PROCESS; COULOMB CRITERION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULT ZONE; GROUND CONDITIONS; INTERFEROMETRY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SEISMIC SOURCE; SPATIAL VARIATION; STRESS CHANGE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRIGGER MECHANISM;

HORMOZGAN; IRAN; QESHM;

EID: 78049493780     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JB007710     Document Type: Article

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