Source investigation and comparison of the 1939, 1946, 1949 and 1965 Earthquakes, Cascadia Subduction zone, Western Washington

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 164, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1905-1919

  Wiest, Katy R ^a,c   Doser, Diane I ^a   Velasco, Aaron A ^a   Zollweg, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascadia; Greens function analysis; Historic earthquakes; Washington

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FOCAL MECHANISM; GREEN FUNCTION; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOGRAM;

CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 34948861104     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-007-0255-y     Document Type: Article

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