Simultaneous long-term and short-term slow slip events at the Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand: Implications for processes that control slow slip event occurrence, duration, and migration

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 117, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Wallace, Laura M ^a,b   Beavan, John ^a   Bannister, Stephen ^a   Williams, Charles ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; SEAMOUNT; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SEISMICITY; SLIP; STRESS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC PLATE; UNDERPLATING;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84868624328     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JB009489     Document Type: Article

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