Intraplate and interplate faulting interactions during the August 31, 2012, Philippine Trench earthquake (Mw 7.6) sequence

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 24, 2012, Pages

  Ye, Lingling ^a   Lay, Thorne ^a   Kanamori, Hiroo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; SEISMIC WAVES;

BROAD-BAND DATA; CENTROID MOMENT TENSORS; NORMAL FAULTING; PHILIPPINE SEAS; PLATE BOUNDARIES; RADIATED ENERGIES; STRESS ACCUMULATION; TEMPLATE ANALYSIS;

FAULTING;

COMPRESSION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULTING; GEODESY; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; P-WAVE; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMICITY; SLIP; SUBDUCTION; TRENCH; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINE SEA;

EID: 84871894049     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL054164     Document Type: Article

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