Spatially linked asperities of the 2006-2007 great Kuril earthquakes revealed by GPS

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 22, 2008, Pages

  Steblov, Grigory M ^a,b   Kogan, Mikhail G ^b   Levin, Boris V ^c   Vasilenko, Nikolai F ^c   Prytkov, Alexander S ^c   Frolov, Dmitry I ^d  

^a SCHMIDT INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF THE EARTH   (Russian Federation)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^d IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; TSUNAMIS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISMS; EVENT-TRIGGERED; SLOW COMPONENTS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; SURFACE OFFSETS;

SEISMOLOGY;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; ASPERITY; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; GPS; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; LITHOSPHERE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THRUST;

EURASIA; KURIL ISLANDS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHALIN;

EID: 60149109366     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035572     Document Type: Article

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