Inter-plate coupling in the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica, as deduced from a trans-peninsula GPS experiment

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 223, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 203-212

  Iinuma, Takeshi ^a   Protti, Marino ^b   Obana, Koichiro ^c   González, Victor ^b   Van der Laat, Rodolfo ^b   Kato, Teruyuki ^a   Miyazaki, Shin'ichi ^a   Kaneda, Yoshiyuki ^c   Hernández, Enrique ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Costa Rica; Forearc sliver; Inter plate coupling; Nicoya Seismic Gap

Indexed keywords

COUPLING; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GPS; KINEMATICS; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMICITY; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; NICOYA PENINSULA;

EID: 2942654848     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.04.016     Document Type: Article

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