Strain and rotation rate patterns of mainland Greece from continuous GPS data and comparison between seismic and geodetic moment release

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 3909-3931

  Chousianitis, Konstantinos ^a   Ganas, Athanassios ^a   Evangelidis, Christos P ^a  

^a NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

GPS; Greece; moment release; strain rates

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION; GEODESY; GPS; PLATE BOUNDARY; ROTATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC MOMENT; STRAIN RATE;

GREECE;

EID: 84935845016     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JB011762     Document Type: Article

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