Measuring the onset of locking in the Peru-Chile trench with GPS and acoustic measurements

Nature

Volumn 434, Issue 7030, 2005, Pages 205-208

  Gagnon, Katie ^a   Chadwell, C David ^a   Norabuena, Edmundo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SEISMOLOGY; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; THERMAL EFFECTS; TRANSPONDERS; TSUNAMIS;

ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS; ACOUSTIC TRANSPONDERS; SEISMIC COUPLING; THRUST FAULTS;

LOCKS (ON WATERWAYS);

GPS; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENT; ARTICLE; CHILE; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT; PERU; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEA SURFACE WATERS; SEASHORE;

CHILEAN MARGIN; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 15244363773     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03412     Document Type: Article

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