Systematic biases in subduction zone hypocenters

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Syracuse, Ellen M ^a   Abers, Geoffrey A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARC VOLCANOES; GLOBAL DATASETS; LOCATION UNCERTAINTY; MANTLE WEDGE; SINGLE-EVENT; SUBDUCTION ZONES; SYSTEMATIC BIAS; THRUST ZONE; VELOCITY MODEL; WATER STORAGE;

LOCATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; THRUST; VOLCANO;

EID: 67651093777     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037487     Document Type: Article

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