Stress transfer among en echelon and opposing thrusts and tear faults: Triggering caused by the 2003 Mw = 6.9 Zemmouri, Algeria, earthquake

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Lin, Jian ^a   Stein, Ross S ^b   Meghraoui, Mustapha ^c   Toda, Shinji ^d   Ayadi, Abdelhakim ^e   Dorbath, Catherine ^c   Belabbes, Samir ^c,f  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG EOST   (France)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Centre de Recherche en Astronomie Astrophysique et Geophysique   (Algeria)

^f Faculté de Médecine   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; COULOMB CRITERION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FAULTING; SEISMICITY; SLIP RATE; STRESS; THRUST FAULT;

ALGERIA;

EID: 79953245446     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JB007654     Document Type: Article

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