Earthquake-prediction research and the earthquakes of 2000 in the South Iceland seismic zone

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1590-1617

  Stefánsson, Ragnar ^a   Bonafede, Maurizio ^b   Gudmundsson, Gunnar B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKUREYRI   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c ICELANDIC METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILD-UP PROCESS; CRUSTAL PROCESS; EVALUATION SYSTEM; ICELANDS; MULTINATIONAL PROJECTS; NEW RESULTS; SEISMIC ACQUISITION; SEISMIC ZONES;

EARTHQUAKES; RESEARCH;

FORECASTING;

DATA ACQUISITION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; MODELING; RESEARCH; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMICITY;

ICELAND; SOUTH ICELAND SEISMIC ZONE;

EID: 79961139369     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090093     Document Type: Article

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