Limited overlap between the seismic gap and coseismic slip of the great 2010 Chile earthquake

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 173-177

  Lorito, S ^a   Romano, F ^a   Atzori, S ^a   Tong, X ^b   Avallone, A ^a   McCloskey, J ^c   Cocco, M ^a   Boschi, E ^a   Piatanesi, A ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILE EARTHQUAKE 2010; COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GEODETIC DATUM; SLIP; THRUST; TSUNAMI;

CHILE; MAULE;

EID: 79952140768     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1073     Document Type: Article

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