Focal mechanisms of micro-earthquakes in the Dobrá Voda seismoactive area in the Malé Karpaty Mts. (Little Carpathians), Slovakia

Tectonophysics

Volumn 492, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 213-229

  Fojtíková, Lucia ^a,b   Vavryáuk, Václav ^c   Cipciar, Andrej ^a   Madarás, Ján ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^d State Geological Institute of Dionyz Stur   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Focal mechanism; Moment tensor; Tectonic stress

Indexed keywords

CARPATHIANS; DATA SETS; DC COMPONENTS; DIPOLE COMPONENT; EXTENSIONAL STRESS; FAULT SYSTEM; FOCAL AREA; FOCAL MECHANISM; HIGH RELIABILITY; HORIZONTAL PLANES; LINEAR VECTORS; MEAN RATIO; MICRO-EARTHQUAKES; MOMENT TENSOR; MOMENT TENSORS; NUMERICAL ERRORS; PRINCIPAL STRESS; S-WAVE VELOCITY; SHEAR STRESS COMPONENT; SLOVAKIA; STRESS INVERSION; TECTONIC STRESS; WAVE AMPLITUDES; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

EARTHQUAKES; FOCUSING; SEISMIC WAVES; TECTONICS;

TENSORS;

EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOCAL MECHANISM; MICROEARTHQUAKE; MOMENT TENSOR; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TECTONIC SETTING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

MALE KARPATY; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 78650543547     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.06.007     Document Type: Article

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