A great earthquake rupture across a rapidly evolving three-plate boundary

Science

Volumn 324, Issue 5924, 2009, Pages 226-229

  Furlong, Kevin P ^a   Lay, Thorne ^b   Ammon, Charles J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANELASTICITY; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PLATE BOUNDARY; SLIP RATE; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

ARTICLE; BOUNDARY LAYER; EARTHQUAKE; GEOLOGY; LITHOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TSUNAMI;

MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOLOMON ISLANDS [(ISG) MELANESIA]; SOLOMON ISLANDS [SOLOMON ISLANDS (ISG)];

EID: 64849115485     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1167476     Document Type: Article

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19. The Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology data management center provided the broadband seismic data. We thank C. Biryol and S. L. Beck for sharing a preprint manuscript and H. Kanamori for discussions about surface wave STFs and slip inversions. This work was supported in part by NSF under grant EAR0635570 (T.L.). we thank three anonymous reviewers for comments on the manuscript.