A tremor and slip event on the Cocos-Caribbean subduction zone as measured by a global positioning system (GPS) and seismic network on the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Outerbridge, Kimberly C ^a   Dixon, Timothy H ^a   Schwartz, Susan Y ^b   Walter, Jacob I ^b   Protti, Marino ^c   Gonzalez, Victor ^c   Biggs, J ^a,d   Thorwart, Martin ^e   Rabbel, Wolfgang ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARIBBEAN PLATE; COCOS PLATE; DATA INVERSION; GPS; INTERFACE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; SEISMIC ZONE; SEISMOLOGY; SLIP; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

COSTA RICA; NICOYA PENINSULA;

EID: 77958120656     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JB006845     Document Type: Article

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