Periodically triggered seismicity at Mount Wrangell, Alaska, after the Sumatra earthquake

Science

Volumn 308, Issue 5725, 2005, Pages 1144-1146

  West, Michael ^a   Sánchez, John J ^a   McNutt, Stephen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OSCILLATIONS; STRESSES; SURFACE WAVES;

EXTENSIONAL STRESSES; GROUND DISPLACEMENT; RAYLEIGH WAVE MOTION; SEISMICITY;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE; INDUCED SEISMICITY; SEISMICITY;

EARTHQUAKE; GEOGRAPHY; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); MEASUREMENT; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; UNITED STATES;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 18844417403     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1112462     Document Type: Short Survey

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18. This study was possible because of the combined seismic network efforts of the Alaska Volcano Observatory and the Alaska Earthquake Information Center. We also thank S. Prejean, J. Stachnik, J. Gomberg, S. Moran, and two anonymous reviewers. Supported by National Science Foundation grant no. EAR-0326083 and by the Alaska Volcano Observatory, a cooperative program between the U.S. Geological Survey Volcano Hazards Program, the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys.