Identifying the rupture plane of the 2001 Nisqually Washington, earthquake

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1546-1558

  Kao, Honn ^a   Wang, Kelin ^a   Chen, Rong Yuh ^b   Wada, Ikuko ^c   He, Jiangheng ^a   Malone, Stephen D ^d  

^a Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

^b CENTRAL WEATHER BUREAU   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEHYDRATION; EARTHQUAKES; EMBRITTLEMENT; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

(1 1 0) SURFACE; FAULT PLANES; NUMERICAL MODELLING; RUPTURE PLANE; SEISMIC WAVEFORMS; UPPERMOST MANTLE; WASHINGTON;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC WAVE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC PLATE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 46149093018     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120070160     Document Type: Article

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