The 2006 slow slip event and nonvolcanic tremor in the Mexican subduction zone

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 24, 2010, Pages

  Kostoglodov, Vladimir ^a   Husker, Allen ^a   Shapiro, Nikolai M ^b   Payero, Juan S ^a   Campillo, Michel ^c   Cotte, Nathalie ^c   Clayton, Robert ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS OBSERVATION; DIFFERENT ORIGINS; ME-XICO; MEXICAN SUBDUCTION ZONE; NON-VOLCANIC TREMORS; SEISMIC DATAS; SEISMOTECTONICS; SLOW SLIP EVENTS; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

SEISMOLOGY;

FAULT SLIP; GPS; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMOTECTONICS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SYNCHRONY;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 78650491364     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045424     Document Type: Article

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