Earthquake swarms in circum-Pacific subduction zones

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 305, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 215-225

  Holtkamp, S G ^a   Brudzinski, M R ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake swarms; Subduction zones

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT RATE; DRIVING MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDES; EARTHQUAKE SWARMS; MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKES; PROPAGATION VELOCITIES; SEISMIC MOMENT; SINGLE EVENT; SLOW SLIP EVENTS; STATIC STRESS; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

VOLCANOES;

EARTHQUAKES;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; FAULT; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMICITY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRIGGER MECHANISM;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 79953752946     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.03.004     Document Type: Article

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