Predicting the geodetic signature of Mw ≥ 8 slow slip events

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Meade, Brendan J ^a   Loveless, John P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCRETES; GEODESY;

DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; ELASTIC COUPLINGS; ELASTIC DISLOCATION MODELS; ELASTIC STRAINS; GEODETIC MEASUREMENTS; PERPENDICULAR MOTIONS; PLATE CONVERGENCES; SLIP VELOCITIES; SLOW SLIP EVENTS; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

TECTONICS;

EARTHQUAKE; GEODESY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PREDICTION; SLIP; SUBDUCTION ZONE; VELOCITY;

EID: 62749084530     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036364     Document Type: Article

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