Rupture process of the 2014 Cephalonia, Greece, earthquake doublet (Mw6) as inferred from regional and local seismic data

Tectonophysics

Volumn 656, Issue , 2015, Pages 131-141

  Sokos, E ^a   Kiratzi, A ^b   Gallovic F ^c   Zahradnik J ^c   Serpetsidaki, A ^a   Plicka, V ^c   Jansky J ^c   Kostelecky J ^d   Tselentis, G A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF GEODESY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Centroid moment tensor; Cephalonia earthquake; Fault complexity; Slip history; Stress field; Waveform inversion

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FLOW; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; SEISMIC RESPONSE; STRESSES; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TENSORS; TRANSFORM FAULTS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CENTROID MOMENT TENSORS; KINEMATIC SLIP MODELS; RUPTURE PROPAGATION; SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT; STRESS FIELD; STRIKE-SLIP MOTION; SURFACE RUPTURES; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

FAULT SLIPS;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC SOURCE; STRESS FIELD;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; CEPHALONIA [IONIAN ISLANDS]; GREECE; IONIAN ISLANDS;

EID: 84938987249     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2015.06.013     Document Type: Article

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