The link between great earthquakes and the subduction of oceanic fracture zones

Solid Earth

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 447-465

  Muller R D ^a   Landgrebe, T C W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION FILTERING SYSTEM; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; OCEANIC FRACTURE ZONES; RECOMMENDATION TECHNOLOGIES; ROBUST ASSOCIATION; SMALL EARTHQUAKES; SUBDUCTION EARTHQUAKES; SUBDUCTION INTERFACE;

FRACTURE; MARINE APPLICATIONS; SEARCH ENGINES; TECTONICS; VOLCANOES;

EARTHQUAKES;

COUPLING; DATA SET; DETACHMENT FAULT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; FRACTURE ZONE; OCEANIC CRUST; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

EID: 84876212305     PISSN: 18699510     EISSN: 18699529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/se-3-447-2012     Document Type: Article

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