Velocity structure and the role of fluids in the West Bohemia Seismic Zone

Alexandrakis, C.; Calò, M.; Bouchaala, F.; Vavryčuk, V.

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Velocity structure and the role of fluids in the West Bohemia Seismic Zone

C. Alexandrakis, M. Calò, F. Bouchaala, and V. Vavryčuk

C. Alexandrakis

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8210-2259

Institute of Geophysics and Geoinformatics, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany

M. Calò

Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, Berkeley, USA

F. Bouchaala

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2368-3302

The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arabic Emirates

V. Vavryčuk

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3962-2678

Institute of Geophysics, Czech Academy of Science, Prague, Czech Republic

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Moment tensor catalogue of earthquakes in West Bohemia from 2008 to 2018

Václav Vavryčuk, Petra Adamová, Jana Doubravová, and Josef Horálek

Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 14, 2179–2194, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-2179-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-2179-2022, 2022

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We present a unique catalogue of more than 5100 highly accurate seismic moment tensors of earthquakes that occurred in West Bohemia, Czech Republic, in the period 2008–2018. The catalogue covers a long period of seismicity with several prominent earthquake swarms. The dataset is ideal for being utilized by a large community of researchers for various seismological purposes such as for studies of migration of foci, spatiotemporal evolution of seismicity, tectonic stress, or fluid flow on faults.

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