Along-strike variations of earthquake apparent stress at the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica, subduction zone

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Stankova Pursley, Jana ^a   Bilek, Susan L ^a   Phillips, W Scott ^b   Newman, Andrew V ^c  

^a NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apparent stress; coda wave; plate coupling; seamounts; subduction zone

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; EARTHQUAKES; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

APPARENT STRESS; CODA WAVES; PLATE COUPLING; SEAMOUNTS; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

TECTONICS;

COUPLING; EARTHQUAKE; PERTURBATION; PLATE TECTONICS; SEAMOUNT; SEISMICITY; STRESS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TEMPERATURE; TOPOGRAPHY;

COSTA RICA; NICOYA PENINSULA;

EID: 80051662808     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GC003558     Document Type: Article

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