Tremor bands sweep Cascadia

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACK-PROJECTION; HIGH RESOLUTION; NON-VOLCANIC TREMORS; PLATE INTERFACES; SEISMIC ARRAYS; SLOW SLIP EVENTS; SOUTH-TO-NORTH; SPATIOTEMPORAL EVOLUTION; STATIC STRESS; TIME-SCALES; TRANSFER OF STRESS;

SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SLIP; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRIKE (GEOLOGY);

CASCADIA BASIN; JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 77952003931     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL042301     Document Type: Article

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