Coulomb stress evolution in Northeastern Caribbean over the past 250 years due to coseismic, postseismic and interseismic deformation

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 904-918

  Ali, Syed Tabrez ^a   Freed, Andrew M ^a   Calais, Eric ^a   Manaker, David M ^a,c   Mccann, William R ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Earth Scientific Consultants   (United States)

^c BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

And prediction; Earthquake interaction; Forecasting

Indexed keywords

CARIBBEAN PLATE; COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FAULT SLIP; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; OBLIQUE FAULT; SEISMIC HAZARD; SLIP RATE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS;

EID: 50649111407     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03634.x     Document Type: Article

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