Segmentation in episodic tremor and slip all along Cascadia

Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 907-910

  Brudzinski, Michael R ^a   Allen, Richard M ^b  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascadia; Episodic tremor and slip; Nonvolcanic tremor; Segmentation; Slow slip; Subduction thrust earthquakes; Subduction zone

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGIC TERRANE; SINGLE-STATION METHODS; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

EARTHQUAKES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; SEISMOGRAPHS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY;

TECTONICS;

ASPERITY; FOREARC BASIN; GPS; GROUND MOTION; SEGMENTATION; SEISMOGRAPH; SLIP; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THRUST;

CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 35448931018     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G23740A.1     Document Type: Article

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