A large slow slip event and the depth of the seismogenic zone in the south central Alaska subduction zone

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 247, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 108-116

  Ohta, Yusaku ^a   Freymueller, Jeffrey T ^b   Hreinsdóttir, Sigrún ^b   Suito, Hisashi ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

1964 Prince William Sound earthquake; Alaska trench; interplate coupling; seismogenic zone; slow slip event

Indexed keywords

INTERPLATE COUPLING; SEISMOGENIC ZONE; SLOW SLIP EVENT;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; SHEAR STRESS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TECTONICS;

SEISMOLOGY;

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMIC ZONE; SLIP; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745184048     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.05.013     Document Type: Article

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