A revised earthquake chronology for the last 4,000 years inferred from varve-bounded debris-flow deposits beneath an inlet near Victoria, British Columbia

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-12

  Blais Stevens, Andrée ^a   Rogers, Garry C ^b   Clague, John J ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CASCADIA; EARTHQUAKE SHAKING; HISTORICAL DATA; HOLOCENES; HYDRAULIC PISTONS; MODIFIED MERCALLI INTENSITIES; PEAK GROUND ACCELERATION; REANALYSIS; RECURRENCE RELATIONS; RETURN PERIODS; SEDIMENT CORE; SUBDUCTION EARTHQUAKES; SUBMARINE DEBRIS FLOW; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES; TIME-PERIODS; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATES;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DEBRIS; DEPOSITS; INLET FLOW; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; SUBMARINES; TURBIDITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EARTHQUAKES;

CORE ANALYSIS; DEBRIS FLOW; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HISTORICAL RECORD; PALEOSEISMICITY; PEAK ACCELERATION; RETURN PERIOD; STRONG MOTION; TECTONIC SETTING; VARVE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; SAANICH INLET; VANCOUVER ISLAND; VICTORIA [VANCOUVER ISLAND];

EID: 79251646877     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090360     Document Type: Article

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