Interplate coupling and a recent aseismic slow slip event in the Guerrero seismic gap of the Mexican subduction zone, as deduced from GPS data inversion using a Bayesian information criterion

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 146, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 513-530

  Yoshioka, Shoichi ^a   Mikumo, Takeshi ^b   Kostoglodov, Vladimir ^b   Larson, Kristine M ^c   Lowry, Anthony R ^d   Singh, Shri K ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UCB 450   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

ABIC; Aseismic slip on the seismogenic zone; Aseismic slow slip event; Forward modeling; GPS data inversion; Guerrero seismic gap; Interplate coupling

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; DATA INVERSION; GPS; PLATE BOUNDARY; SLIP RATE; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

EID: 3543109563     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2004.05.006     Document Type: Article

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