Using seismic b-values to interpret seismicity rates and physical processes during the preeruptive earthquake swarm at Augustine Volcano 2005-2006

US Geological Survey Professional Paper

Volumn , Issue 1769, 2010, Pages 59-75

  Jacobs, Katrina M ^a   McNutt, Stephen R ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B VALUE; DEFORMATION STAGES; DIKE INTRUSION; EARTHQUAKE SWARMS; EXPLOSIVE ACTIVITY; FOCAL MECHANISM; GEODETIC INTERPRETATION; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; PHYSICAL PROCESS; STEEPER SLOPES; STRESS EFFECTS; VOLCANO TECTONIC EARTHQUAKES;

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKES; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; PORE PRESSURE; SEPARATION; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

VOLCANOES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; FOCAL MECHANISM; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; GEODETIC NETWORK; PORE PRESSURE; SEISMICITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TIME SERIES; VOLCANIC EARTHQUAKE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ALASKA; AUGUSTINE; AUGUSTINE ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84855324632     PISSN: 10449612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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