Stress triggering of the great Indian Ocean strike-slip earthquakes in a diffuse plate boundary zone

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 22, 2012, Pages

  Wiseman, Kelly ^a   Brgmann, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

DIFFUSE PLATE BOUNDARIES; EARTHQUAKE ACTIVITY; INDIAN OCEAN; MAINSHOCK; MAINSHOCK FAULTS; MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKES; MULTIPLE FAULTS; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PLATE BOUNDARIES; STRESS TRIGGERING; STRIKE-SLIP EARTHQUAKES; SUMATRA , INDONESIA; VISCOELASTIC RELAXATION; WEST COAST;

EARTHQUAKES;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; LITHOSPHERE; PLATE BOUNDARY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; THRUST;

GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; INDIAN OCEAN; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES; WHARTON BASIN;

EID: 84870589420     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053954     Document Type: Article

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