Tomographic evidence for a subducted seamount beneath the Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica: The cause of the 1990 Mw = 7.0 Gulf of Nicoya earthquake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2002, Pages

  Husen, S ^a,c   Kissling, E ^a   Quintero, R ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; GEOPHYSICS; SEISMIC WAVES; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

COCOS PLATES; OCEANIC PLATE; P-WAVE VELOCITY; RUPTURE AREAS; SUBDUCTION EARTHQUAKES; THRUST FAULTS; TOMOGRAPHIC; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 0037092363     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL014045     Document Type: Article

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