Upper plate deformation measured by GPS in the Coquimbo Gap, Chile

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 175, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 86-95

  Vigny, Christophe ^a   Rudloff, Alain ^a   Ruegg, Jean Claude ^b   Madariaga, Raul ^a   Campos, Jaime ^c   Alvarez, Manuel ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

GPS; Seismicity; Subduction; Tectonics; Transient

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LOCKS (FASTENERS); TECTONICS; TRANSIENTS;

CONVERGENCE RATES; DENSE NETWORK; HIGH-PRECISION; SEISMICITY; SUBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION INTERFACE; SURFACE DEFORMATION; TRANSIENT PATTERNS;

EARTHQUAKES;

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; ELASTICITY; GPS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SEISMICITY; SLIP; SUBDUCTION;

CHILE; COQUIMBO; ICA; NAZCA; PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 67349108954     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2008.02.013     Document Type: Article

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