Depths and focal mechanisms of crustal earthquakes in the central Andes determined from teleseismic waveform analysis and InSAR

Tectonics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Devlin, S ^a   Isacks, B L ^b   Pritchard, M E ^b   Barnhart, W D ^b   Lohman, R B ^b  

^a U S NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION   (United States)

^b Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; GEODETIC SATELLITES; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ARGENTINA; CENTRAL ANDES; CRUSTAL EARTHQUAKES; EARTHQUAKE LOCATION; EASTERN CORDILLERA; FLAT SLABS; FOCAL DEPTH; FOCAL MECHANISM; FOREARC; LOWER CRUST; SOURCE TIME FUNCTIONS; STRIKE-SLIP EARTHQUAKES; SURFACE DEFORMATION; TECTONIC SETTINGS; TELESEISMIC; TELESEISMIC WAVEFORMS; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

FAULTING;

EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; FOCAL MECHANISM; LOWER CRUST; NUMERICAL MODEL; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TECTONIC SETTING; TELESEISMIC WAVE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ANDES;

EID: 84858040409     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011TC002914     Document Type: Article

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