Complex rupture during the 12 January 2010 Haiti earthquake

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 800-805

  Hayes, G P ^a,b   Briggs, R W ^a   Sladen, A ^c   Fielding, E J ^d   Prentice, C ^e   Hudnut, K ^f   Mann, P ^g   Taylor, F W ^g   Crone, A J ^a   Gold, R ^a   Ito, T ^c,h   Simons, M ^c  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Synergetics Inc   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^f U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^h NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARIBBEAN PLATE; FAULT ZONE; HAITI EARTHQUAKE 2010; HOLOCENE; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE TECTONICS; RUPTURE; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR STRAIN; THRUST FAULT;

HAITI;

EID: 78049469349     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo977     Document Type: Article

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