Basin-centered asperities in great subduction zone earthquakes: A link between slip, subsidence, and subduction erosion?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 108, Issue 10, 2003, Pages

  Wells, Ray E ^a   Blakely, Richard J ^a   Sugiyama, Yuichi ^b   Scholl, David W ^a   Dinterman, Philip A ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asperities; Bathymetry; Coseismic slip; Earthquake; Forearc basin; Gravity; Subduction; Subduction erosion; Subsidence

Indexed keywords

ASPERITY; COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE; EROSION; FAULT SLIP; GRAVITY ANOMALY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUBSIDENCE;

EID: 1342320660     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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