A preliminary catalog of moment tensors for the Pyrenees

Tectonophysics

Volumn 510, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 239-251

  Chevrot, Sébastien ^a   Sylvander, Matthieu ^a   Delouis, Bertrand ^b  

^a IRAP   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

Author keywords

Magnitude; Moment tensor; Pyrenees; Waveform inversion

Indexed keywords

FOCAL MECHANISM; LOCAL MAGNITUDE; MAGNITUDE; MAGNITUDE SCALE; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; MOMENT TENSOR; MOMENT TENSORS; PYRENEES; SCALING RELATIONS; STRIKE-SLIP MECHANISM; TIME-PERIODS; WAVE SPECTRA; WAVEFORM DATA; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

EARTHQUAKES; LIBRARIES; SHEAR FLOW; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

TENSORS;

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULTING; FOCAL MECHANISM; S-WAVE; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMOLOGY; SLOPE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

PYRENEES;

EID: 80052755991     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.07.011     Document Type: Article

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