Ball-and-socket tectonic rotation during the 2013 Mw7.7 Balochistan earthquake

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 403, Issue , 2014, Pages 210-216

  Barnhart, W D ^a   Hayes, G P ^a   Briggs, R W ^a   Gold, R D ^a   Bilham, R ^b  

^a Geologic Hazards Science Center United States Geological Survey   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Block rotations; Continental strike slip earthquakes; Geodesy; Seismology

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GEODESY; SEISMOLOGY; STICTION;

BALL AND SOCKETS; COUNTER-CLOCKWISE; DYNAMIC RUPTURES; STRIKE-SLIP EARTHQUAKES; STRONG GROUND MOTION; SURFACE DISPLACEMENT; TECTONIC ROTATIONS; TELESEISMIC SOURCES;

FAULTING;

BLOCK ROTATION; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EURASIAN PLATE; GEODESY; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

KARACHI; PAKISTAN; SIND;

EID: 84904758241     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.07.001     Document Type: Article

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