A sea-floor spreading event captured by seismometers

Science

Volumn 314, Issue 5807, 2006, Pages 1920-1922

  Tolstoy, M ^a   Cowen, J P ^b   Baker, E T ^c   Fornari, D J ^d   Rubin, K H ^e   Shank, T M ^d   Waldhauser, F ^a   Bohnenstiehl, D R ^a   Forsyth, D W ^f   Holmes, R C ^a   Love, B ^g   Perfit, M R ^h   Weekly, R T ^a   Soule, S A ^d   Glazer, B ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^f BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); EARTHQUAKES; LEVEES; MANGANESE NODULES; SEISMOLOGY;

OCEAN RIDGES; OCEAN SURFACE; SEA-FLOOR SPREADING EVENTS; SEISMIC MONITORING;

MARINE APPLICATIONS;

MICROEARTHQUAKE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEISMICITY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ARTICLE; DEEP SEA; GEOLOGY; MEASUREMENT; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEISMOMETER; SURFACE TENSION;

EAST PACIFIC RISE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 33845909312     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1133950     Document Type: Article

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