On the deformation cycle of a strongly coupled plate interface: The triple earthquakes of 16 March 1963, 15 November 2006, and 13 January 2007 along the Kurile subduction zone

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 114, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Raeesi, M ^a   Atakan, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; BOUGUER ANOMALY; CONTINENTAL ARC; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; INTERFACE; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMICITY; SLIP; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

EID: 72049126961     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB006184     Document Type: Article

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