Tremor patches in Cascadia revealed by seismic array analysis

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 17, 2009, Pages

  Ghosh, Abhijit ^a   Vidale, John E ^a   Sweet, Justin R ^a   Creager, Kenneth C ^a   Wech, Aaron G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING;

BEAMFORMING TECHNIQUE; CROSS CORRELATION METHODS; FAULT STRENGTH; MIGRATION PATH; NON-VOLCANIC TREMORS; OLYMPICS; PUGET SOUND; SEISMIC ARRAYS; SEISMIC ENERGY; STRESS RELEASE; SUBDUCTION INTERFACE; TREMOR DETECTION; WASHINGTON;

SEISMOLOGY;

EPISODIC EVENT; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC MOMENT; SLIP; SUBDUCTION;

NORTH AMERICA; OLYMPIC PENINSULA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 72049090973     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039080     Document Type: Article

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