Coseismic displacements and Holocene slip rates for two active thrust faults at the mountain front of the Andean Precordillera (∼33°S)

Tectonics

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Schmidt, Silke ^a   Hetzel, Ralf ^a   Mingorance, Francisco ^b   Ramos, Victor A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CUYO   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGE DETERMINATION; CO-SEISMIC DISPLACEMENT; FAULT DIP; FAULT SCARP; GPS DATA; HOLOCENES; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SLIP RATES; THRUST FAULTS;

LANDFORMS;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GPS; HOLOCENE; MOUNTAIN REGION; SEISMIC HAZARD; SLIP RATE; THRUST FAULT;

PRECORDILLERA;

PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 80054729478     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011TC002932     Document Type: Article

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