Variations in earthquake rupture properties along the Gofar transform fault, East Pacific Rise

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 336-341

  McGuire, Jeffrey J ^a   Collins, John A ^a   Gouédard, Pierre ^b   Roland, Emily ^b,d   Lizarralde, Dan ^a   Boettcher, Margaret S ^c   Behn, Mark D ^a   Van Der Hilst, Robert D ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c University of New Hampshire   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; FAULT ZONE; FORESHOCK; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; POROSITY; S-WAVE; SEISMICITY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TRANSFORM FAULT;

EAST PACIFIC RISE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84860477728     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1454     Document Type: Article

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