Space-time analysis, faulting and triggering of the 2010 earthquake doublet in western Corinth Gulf

Natural Hazards

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1181-1202

  Karakostas, Vassilios ^a   Karagianni, Eleni ^a   Paradisopoulou, Parthena ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Corinth Gulf; Earthquake swarms; Static stress changes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864397981     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0219-0     Document Type: Letter

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