Deep tremor in New Zealand triggered by the 2010 Mw8.8 Chile earthquake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 15, 2011, Pages

  Fry, B ^a   Chao, K ^b   Bannister, S ^a   Peng, Z ^b   Wallace, L ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES;

EPISODIC SLOW SLIPS; FLUID PRESSURES; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; IN-PHASE; INTERFACE FRICTION; NEW ZEALAND; NON-VOLCANIC TREMORS; PLATE INTERFACES; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SLOW SLIP EVENTS; SOURCE AREA; THRUST FAULTS;

EARTHQUAKES;

CHILE EARTHQUAKE 2010; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; EPISODIC EVENT; FLUID PRESSURE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SIGNAL; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SURFACE WAVE; THRUST FAULT;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 80051493682     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048319     Document Type: Article

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