Contemporary deformation and stressing rates in Southern Alaska

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 557-571

  Ali, Syed Tabrez ^a   Freed, Andrew M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental margins: convergent; Earthquake interaction, forecasting, and prediction; Rheology: crust and lithosphere; Seismic cycle; Transient deformation

Indexed keywords

ALASKA EARTHQUAKES; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; COOK INLET; COSEISMIC SLIPS; DENALI FAULT; GAIN INSIGHT; HIGH STRESS; MICROPLATES; NUMERICAL MODELS; PACIFIC PLATES; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLATE INTERFACES; PLATE MOTIONS; RUPTURE SURFACE; SEISMIC CYCLE; SEISMIC DEFORMATION; SEISMIC PROCESS; SLIP RATES; STRESS CHANGES; STRIKE-SLIP EARTHQUAKES; STRIKE-SLIP EVENTS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SURFACE VELOCITY; TRANSIENT DEFORMATION; VELOCITY FIELD; VISCOELASTIC RELAXATION;

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKES; ELASTICITY; RHEOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VISCOSITY;

FORECASTING;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONVERGENT MARGIN; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GPS; LITHOSPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE MOTION; RHEOLOGY; SEISMICITY; SLIP RATE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; VISCOELASTICITY;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77958554514     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04784.x     Document Type: Article

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