The puzzle of the 1996 Bardarbunga, Iceland, Earthquake: No volumetric component in the source mechanism

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2009

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Tkalčić, Hrvoje
Dreger, Douglas
Foulger, G. R.
Julian, B. R.

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Seismological Society of America

Abstract

A volcanic earthquake with Mw 5:6 occurred beneath the Bárdarbunga caldera in Iceland on 29 September 1996. This earthquake is one of a decade-long sequence of M 5 events at Bárdarbunga with non-double-couple mechanisms in the Global Centroid Moment Ten

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Keywords: Centroid moment tensors; Dipole component; Hot spot; Icelands; Linear vectors; Moment tensor inversion; Moment tensor inversion methods; Planar fault; Seismic waveforms; Shear slip; Source mechanisms; Structural models; Volcanic earthquakes; Volume change

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Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

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