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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cisternas, A
• Philip, H
• Bousquet, J. C
• Cara, M
• Deschamps, A
• Dorbath, L
• Dorbath, C
• Haessler, H
• Jimenez, E
• Nercessian, A
• Rivera, L
• Romanowicz, B
• Gvishiani, A
• Shebalin, N. V
• Aptekman, I
• Arefiev, S
• Borisov, B. A
• Gorshkov, A
• Graizer, V
• Lander, A
• Pletnev, K
• Rogozhin, A. I
• Tatevossian, R

Titel

The Spitak (Armenia) earthquake of 7 December 1988: field observations, seismology and tectonics

Ist Teil von

• Nature (London), 1989-06, Vol.339 (6227), p.675-679

Ort / Verlag

London: Nature Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

1989

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The epicenter of the destructive Dec 7, 1988 earthquake that devastated northern Armenia is located within the Lesser Caucasus, a mountain country subjected to north-south compression by the push of the Arabian plate. A field study of surface breaks and aftershock activity is presented.