Modelling the 2013 North Aegean (Greece) seismic sequence: Geometrical and frictional constraints, and aftershock probabilities

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 197, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 525-541

  Karakostas, Vassilis ^a   Papadimitriou, Eleftheria ^a   Gospodinov, Dragomir ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLOVDIV   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Continental tectonics: strike slip and transform; Dynamics and mechanics of faulting; Earthquake interaction, forecasting, and prediction; Friction; Rheology and friction of fault zones; Seismicity and tectonics; Statistical seismology

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL TECTONICS: STRIKE-SLIP AND TRANSFORMS; DYNAMICS AND MECHANICS OF FAULTING; EARTHQUAKE INTERACTION , FORECASTING , AND PREDICTIONS; RHEOLOGY AND FRICTION OF FAULT ZONES; SEISMICITY AND TECTONICS; STATISTICAL SEISMOLOGIES;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; FORECASTING; FRICTION; SEISMOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; TECTONICS; TRIBOLOGY;

TRANSFORM FAULTS;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; FAULTING; FRICTION; GEOMETRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RHEOLOGY; SEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONICS; TRANSFORM FAULT;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; GREECE;

EID: 84897859893     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggt523     Document Type: Article

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