Non-volcanic tremor associated with the March 2010 Gisborne slow slip event at the Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 14, 2011, Pages

  Kim, Marina J ^a   Schwartz, Susan Y ^a   Bannister, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY;

LOW-AMPLITUDE; MICRO-EARTHQUAKES; NEW ZEALAND; NON-VOLCANIC TREMORS; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; PRESSURE CONDITIONS; SEISMIC DATAS; SEISMIC TREMOR; SHALLOW DEPTHS; SLOW SLIP EVENTS; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

VOLCANOES;

AMPLITUDE; GEOACCUMULATION; MICROEARTHQUAKE; MICROTREMOR; REGIONAL GEOLOGY; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC DATA; SLIP; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

BOSO PENINSULA; CHIBA; GISBORNE; HIKURANGI MARGIN; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 79960499370     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048400     Document Type: Article

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