Relocation and characterization of the August 2009 microearthquake swarm above the Socorro magma body in the central Rio Grande Rift

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 23, 2010, Pages

  Ruhl, Christine ^a   Bilek, Susan L ^a   Stankova Pursley, Jana ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGIC MODELS; RELOCATION; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

B VALUE; CONTINENTAL RIFT; EARTHQUAKE SWARMS; FLUID MOVEMENT; FOCAL MECHANISM; MAGMA BODIES; MICROEARTHQUAKE SWARM; RIO GRANDE; RIO GRANDE RIFT; STRESS PATTERNS; TECTONIC SETTINGS; TEMPORAL PATTERN;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE SWARM; MAGMA; MICROEARTHQUAKE; RIFT ZONE; SEISMOLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TECTONIC SETTING;

RIO GRANDE RIFT;

EID: 78650092410     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045162     Document Type: Article

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