New insights on the interseismic active deformation along the North Ecuadorian-South Colombian (NESC) margin

Tectonics

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Manchuel, Kevin ^a   Régnier, Marc ^a   Béthoux, Nicole ^a   Font, Yvonne ^a   Sallarès, Valentí ^b   Díaz, Jordi ^c   Yepes, Hugo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^b CSIC Unidad de Tecnologia Marina UTM   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^d ESCUELA POLITÉCNICA NACIONAL   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; SEISMOGRAPHS; TECTONICS;

ACTIVE DEFORMATION; COASTAL DOMAIN; COLOMBIANS; FLAT SLABS; INTERMEDIATE DEPTHS; MAIN SHOCK; MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKES; NAZCA PLATE; PLATE INTERFACES; RUPTURE AREAS; RUPTURE ZONE; SEISMIC ACTIVITY; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SEISMOGENIC ZONES; SLAB DIP; SUBDUCTION ZONES; VOLCANIC ARC;

DEFORMATION;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; NAZCA PLATE; SEISMIC ZONE; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; UPLIFT;

ANDES; CARNEGIE RIDGE; COLOMBIA; ECUADOR; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 79960929640     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010TC002757     Document Type: Article

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