Changes in effective stress during the 2003-2004 Ubaye seismic swarm, France

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Daniel, G ^a   Prono, E ^b   Renard, F ^e   Thouvenot, F ^c   Hainzl, S ^d   Marsan, D ^b   Helmstetter, A ^c   Traversa, P ^c   Got, J L ^b   Jenatton, L ^c   Guiguet, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; OVERPRESSURE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SEISMOLOGY; STRESS;

FRANCE;

EID: 79551621041     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JB007551     Document Type: Article

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