Slab morphology in the Cascadia fore arc and its relation to episodic tremor and slip

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Audet, Pascal ^a,b   Bostock, Michael G ^a   Boyarko, Devin C ^c   Brudzinski, Michael R ^c   Allen, Richard M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVE; EPISODIC EVENT; FOREARC BASIN; OCEANIC CRUST; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMICITY; SLAB; SLIP; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TELESEISMIC WAVE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; METAMORPHISM; MICROTREMOR;

CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE; OREGON; PACIFIC OCEAN; PUGET SOUND; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES]; WILLAMETTE VALLEY; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CALIFORNIA; CANADA; VANCOUVER;

EID: 77950624171     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB006053     Document Type: Article

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