Southern Cascadia episodic slow earthquakes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 16, 2004, Pages

  Szeliga, Walter ^a   Melbourne, Timothy I ^a   Miller, M Meghan ^a   Santillan, V Marcelo ^a  

^a CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; CREEP TESTING; DATA REDUCTION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); SEISMOLOGY;

FOREARC CONTRACTION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMOMETERS; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

EARTHQUAKES;

CREEP; EARTHQUAKE; GPS; PLATE MOTION; SEISMIC DATA;

CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE; NORTH AMERICA; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 7044222483     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020824     Document Type: Article

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