The 2010 Mw 8.8 Maule, Chile earthquake: Nucleation and rupture propagation controlled by a subducted topographic high

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 19, 2012, Pages

  Hicks, Stephen P ^a   Rietbrock, Andreas ^a   Haberland, Christian A ^b   Ryder, Isabelle M A ^a   Simons, Mark ^c   Tassara, Andrés ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; SEISMIC WAVES;

BOUGUER GRAVITY; CHILE EARTHQUAKES; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKES; RUPTURE PROPAGATION; SEISMIC PROPERTIES; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; SEISMIC VELOCITY MODELS;

NUCLEATION;

CHILE EARTHQUAKE 2010; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GRAVITY; NAZCA PLATE; SEAMOUNT; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SLAB; SLIP; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

CHILE; MAULE;

EID: 84867540504     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053184     Document Type: Article

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