A slow slip event in the south central Alaska Subduction Zone and related seismicity anomaly

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 15, 2012, Pages

  Wei, Meng ^a   McGuire, Jeffrey J ^a   Richardson, Eliza ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

COOK INLET; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGS; GPS DATA; LONG DURATION; PLATE BOUNDARIES; SLOW SLIP EVENTS; STOCHASTIC EPIDEMICS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TIME INTERVAL; TIME RECORDS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; GPS; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMICITY; SLIP; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

ALASKA; COOK INLET; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865409957     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052351     Document Type: Article

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