Toward understanding tectonic control on the M w 8.8 2010 Maule Chile earthquake

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 321-322, Issue , 2012, Pages 152-165

  Moreno, M ^a   Melnick, D ^b   Rosenau, M ^a   Baez, J ^c   Klotz, J ^a   Oncken, O ^a   Tassara, A ^c   Chen, J ^a,d   Bataille, K ^c   Bevis, M ^e   Socquet, A ^f   Bolte, J ^g   Vigny, C ^h   Brooks, B ⁱ   Ryder, I ^j   Grund, V ^k   Smalley, B ^l   Carrizo, D ^m   Bartsch, M ^a   Hase, H ⁿ  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^d CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^g TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^h ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^k Sogeti High Tech GmbH   (Germany)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

ⁿ Geodetic Observatory TIGO   (Chile)

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Author keywords

Chile; FEM; GPS; Maule; Slip model

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRIC FEATURES; CHILE; CONTROL STRAIN; COSEISMIC SLIPS; CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; DATA SETS; EARTHQUAKE SLIP; FAR-FIELD REGION; FINITE-ELEMENT MODELS; GREAT EARTHQUAKE; JOINT INVERSION; MAULE; PLATE BOUNDARIES; RUPTURE PROPAGATION; SLIP MODEL; SUBDUCTION MEGATHRUSTS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; SURFACE OFFSETS; TECTONIC CONTROL; TECTONIC FEATURES; UPPER PLATE;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; TECTONICS;

EARTHQUAKES;

CHILE EARTHQUAKE 2010; COSEISMIC PROCESS; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GPS; GREEN FUNCTION; INTERFEROMETRY; NAZCA PLATE; PLATE BOUNDARY; SLIP RATE; STRAIN RATE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TECTONIC SETTING;

CHILE; MAULE;

EID: 84862778048     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.01.006     Document Type: Article

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