Estimating seismic moment magnitude (Mw) of tremor bursts in northern Cascadia: Implications for the "seismic efficiency" of episodic tremor and slip

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 19, 2010, Pages

  Kao, Honn ^a,b   Wang, Kelin ^a,b   Dragert, Herb ^a,b   Kao, Jason Y ^c   Rogers, Garry ^a,b  

^a Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES;

B VALUE; CASCADIA; MAXIMUM AMPLITUDE; NON-VOLCANIC TREMORS; S-PHASE; SEISMIC MOMENT; SYNTHETIC SEISMOGRAM; TIME WINDOWS;

EFFICIENCY;

AMPLITUDE; CALIBRATION; MAGNITUDE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMOGRAM; SLIP;

CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 77958496270     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044927     Document Type: Article

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