The June 2010 Nicobar earthquake: Fault reactivation on the subducting oceanic plate

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2568-2577

  Rajendran, K ^a   Andrade, V ^a   Rajendran, C P ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION MODELS; FAULT REACTIVATION; MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKES; OCEANIC PLATE; RUPTURE ZONE; STRESS TRANSFER; STRIKE SLIP FAULTING; SUBDUCTING PLATE; SUMATRA;

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

TECTONICS;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT ZONE; FAULTING; FOCAL MECHANISM; NORMAL FAULT; RUPTURE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE 2004; THRUST FAULT;

EID: 80053191369     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120110002     Document Type: Article

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