Persistent tremor within the northern Costa Rica seismogenic zone

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Walter, Jacob I ^a   Schwartz, Susan Y ^a   Protti, J Marino ^b   Gonzalez, Victor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEODESY;

COSTA RICA; HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTIONS; SEISMOGENIC ZONES; SHALLOW DEPTHS; SHORT DURATIONS; SPECTRAL DETECTION; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

SEISMOGRAPHS;

DETECTION METHOD; GEODESY; HETEROGENEITY; SEISMOLOGY; SLIP; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

COSTA RICA; NICOYA PENINSULA;

EID: 78751548173     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045586     Document Type: Article

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