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Lake Charles, Louisiana, earthquake of 16 October 1983
Donald A. Stevenson and James D. Agnew
Lake Charles, Louisiana, earthquake of 16 October 1983
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (August 1988) 78 (4): 1463-1474
Lake Charles, Louisiana, earthquake of 16 October 1983
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (August 1988) 78 (4): 1463-1474
Index Terms/Descriptors
- aftershocks
- basement
- body waves
- Calcasieu Parish Louisiana
- earthquakes
- elastic waves
- epicenters
- faults
- focal mechanism
- foreshocks
- Gulf Coastal Plain
- Louisiana
- magnitude
- monitoring
- networks
- normal faults
- P-waves
- seismic intensity
- seismic waves
- seismology
- United States
- southwestern Louisiana
- Lake Charles earthquake 1983
Latitude & Longitude
ISSN: 0037-1106
EISSN: 1943-3573
Coden: BSSAAP
Serial Title: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
Serial Volume: 78
Serial Issue: 4
Title: Lake Charles, Louisiana, earthquake of 16 October 1983
Affiliation: La. Geol. Surv., La. State Univ.,
Baton Rouge, LA,
United States
Pages: 1463-1474
Published: 198808
Text Language: English
Publisher: Seismological Society of America,
Berkeley, CA,
United States
References: 17
Accession Number: 1988-064852
Categories: Seismology
Document Type: Serial
Bibliographic Level: Analytic
Illustration Description: illus. incl. 2 tables, sect., geol. sketch maps
N30°15'00" - N30°18'00", W93°15'00" - W93°10'00"
Secondary Affiliation: Woodward-Clyde Consult.,
USA,
United States
Country of Publication: United States
Secondary Affiliation: GeoRef, Copyright 2017, American Geosciences Institute.
Update Code: 1988
