Probable low-angle thrust earthquakes on the Juan de Fuca-North America plate boundary

Geology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 127-130

  Tréhu, Anne M ^a   Braunmiller, Jochen ^a   Nabelek, John L ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascadia; Episodic tremor; Slip; Subduction thrust earthquake; Subduction zone

Indexed keywords

EPISODIC TREMOR; MOMENT TENSOR ANALYSIS; SUBDUCTION THRUST EARTHQUAKE; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

LANDFORMS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ARRIVAL TIME; CORRELATION; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EPISODIC EVENT; FAULT SLIP; MOMENT TENSOR; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; RAY TRACING; SEISMIC SOURCE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THRUST;

CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE; JUAN DE FUCA RIDGE; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 44449114096     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G24145A.1     Document Type: Article

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