Metastable olivine wedge in the subducting Pacific slab and its relation to deep earthquakes

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1411-1423

  Jiang, Guoming ^a   Zhao, Dapeng ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deep earthquakes; Double difference earthquake location; Forward modeling; Metastable olivine wedge; Pacific slab; Transformational faulting

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FAULTING; MODELING; OLIVINE; P-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMICITY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; WAVE VELOCITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN;

EID: 80053296803     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2011.08.005     Document Type: Article

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