An earthquake-like magnitude-frequency distribution of slow slip in northern Cascadia

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 22, 2010, Pages

  Wech, Aaron G ^a,b   Creager, Kenneth C ^a   Houston, Heidi ^a   Vidale, John E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; TECTONICS;

AUTOMATIC SEARCHES; B VALUE; CASCADIA; CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE; GEODETIC DEFORMATION; LOGARITHMIC FREQUENCY; MAGNITUDE-FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION; MAJOR EVENTS; OLYMPICS; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; SPACE AND TIME; TREMOR DETECTION;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

AUTOMATION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EPISODIC EVENT; GEODESY; MICROTREMOR; POWER LAW; SLIP RATE; STRAIN RATE; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE; OLYMPIC PENINSULA; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 78649526787     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044881     Document Type: Article

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