The 2013 Mw 7.7 balochistan earthquake: Seismic potential of an accretionary wedge

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1020-1030

  Jolivet, R ^a,b   Duputel, Z ^a   Riel, B ^a   Simons, M ^a   Rivera, L ^a,b   Minson, S E ^a   Zhang, H ^a   Aivazis, M A G ^a   Ayoub, F ^a   Leprince, S ^a   Samsonov, S ^c   Motagh, M ^d,f   Fielding, E J ^e  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UMR 7063   (France)

^c NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

^d GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DEFORMATION; FAULT SLIPS; PRISMS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR IMAGING;

ACCRETIONARY WEDGE; BAYESIAN APPROACHES; ELASTIC STRUCTURES; GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES; INTERNAL DEFORMATION; LONG-TERM DEFORMATION; MULTIPLE STRUCTURES; POSTERIOR PROBABILITY;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FAULT GEOMETRY; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SEISMIC DATA; SUBDUCTION; TELESEISMIC WAVE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

BALUCHISTAN; PAKISTAN;

EID: 84897529805     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120130313     Document Type: Article

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