Motion on upper-plate faults during subduction zone earthquakes: Case of the Atacama Fault System, northern Chile

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Loveless, J P ^a,b   Pritchard, M E ^a  

^a Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake; InSAR; Neotectonics; Subduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350732094     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GC002155     Document Type: Article

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