The Mw 7.7 Tocopilla earthquake of 14 November 2007 at the Southern edge of the Northern Chile seismic gap: Rupture in the deep part of the coupled plate interface

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 87-94

  Delouis, Bertrand ^a   Pardo, Mario ^b   Legrand, Denis ^b,c   Monfret, Tony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

COUPLED ZONES; JOINT INVERSIONS; MAXIMUM VALUES; NORTHERN CHILES; PLATE INTERFACES; RUPTURE VELOCITIES; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SLIP DISTRIBUTIONS; STRONG CORRELATIONS; STRONG-MOTION DATUM; TELESEISMIC;

EARTHQUAKES;

DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT SLIP; SEISMIC DATA; STRONG MOTION; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 60649120573     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080192     Document Type: Article

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