Aftershock relocation and frequency-size distribution, stress inversion and seismotectonic setting of the 7 August 2013 M=5.4 earthquake in Kallidromon Mountain, central Greece

Tectonophysics

Volumn 617, Issue , 2014, Pages 101-113

  Ganas, Athanassios ^a   Karastathis, Vassilios ^a   Moshou, Alexandra ^a   Valkaniotis, Sotirios ^b   Mouzakiotis, Evangelos ^a   Papathanassiou, George ^c  

^a NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Aristotle University of Thessaloniki ^*  (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Active tectonics; Aftershock relocation; Central Greece; Crustal extension; Normal faults; Stress inversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894279811     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2014.01.022     Document Type: Article

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