GPS measurements across the northern Caribbean plate boundary zone: impact of postseismic relaxation following historic earthquakes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2233-2236

  Pollitz, Fred F ^a   Dixon, Timothy H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; RELAXATION PROCESSES; RHEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

PLATE BOUNDARY ZONE; POSTSEISMIC RELAXATION; SOFTWARE PACKAGE NUVEL 1A;

SEISMOLOGY;

GPS; PLATE MOTION; POSTSEISMIC RELAXATION;

CARIBBEAN;

EID: 0032526123     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00645     Document Type: Article

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