Slab stress field in the Hellenic subduction zone as inferred from intermediate-depth earthquakes

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 139-144

  Rontogianni, S ^a   Konstantinou, K I ^a   Melis, C P ^b   Evangelidis, ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aegean; Greece; Slab stress; Subduction

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; HETEROGENEITY; HOMOGENEITY; MOMENT TENSOR; SLAB; STRESS FIELD; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

DODECANESE; GREECE; KARPATHOS; RHODES; SOUTHERN AEGEAN;

EID: 79955010445     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2010.11.011     Document Type: Article

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