Relation between subduction megathrust earthquakes, trench sediment thickness and upper plate strain

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Heuret, A ^a,b   Conrad, C P ^c   Funiciello, F ^a   Lallemand, S ^b   Sandri, L ^d  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STATISTICAL TESTS; TECTONICS;

DATA SETS; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDES; EARTHQUAKE OCCURRENCES; GEOMETRICAL IRREGULARITIES; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKES; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SUBDUCTING PLATE; SUBDUCTION INTERFACE; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TECTONIC STRESS; UPPER PLATE;

EARTHQUAKES;

DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GEODYNAMICS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; SEDIMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STRAIN ANALYSIS; SUBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC PLATE; THRUST; TRENCH;

EID: 84857955785     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050712     Document Type: Article

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