Shallow seismicity, triggered seismicity, and ambient noise tomography at the long-dormant Uturuncu Volcano, Bolivia

Bulletin of Volcanology

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 817-837

  Jay, Jennifer A ^a   Pritchard, Matthew E ^a   West, Michael E ^b   Christensen, Douglas ^b   Haney, Matthew ^c   Minaya, Estela ^d   Sunagua, Mayel ^e   McNutt, Stephen R ^b   Zabala, Mario ^d  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d Observatorio San Calixto   (Bolivia)

^e SERGEOTECMIN   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

Earthquake swarms; Seismology; South America; Triggered earthquakes

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; LINEAMENT; LOVE WAVE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALTIPLANO; BOLIVIA; POTOSI [BOLIVIA]; UTURUNCU;

EID: 84860315830     PISSN: 02588900     EISSN: 14320819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00445-011-0568-7     Document Type: Article

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