Tremors along the Queen Charlotte Margin triggered by large teleseismic earthquakes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 829-834

  Aiken, Chastity ^a   Peng, Zhigang ^a   Chao, Kevin ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

dynamic triggering; transpressive

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC TRIGGERING; HIGH FREQUENCY SIGNALS; PARTICLE VELOCITIES; SUMATRA EARTHQUAKES; SYSTEMATIC SEARCHES; TELESEISMIC EARTHQUAKES; TOHOKU-OKI EARTHQUAKES; TRANSPRESSIVE;

FAULTING; SURFACE WAVES;

EARTHQUAKES;

AMPLITUDE; CHILE EARTHQUAKE 2010; CORRELATION; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; FAULT ZONE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC WAVE; SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE 2004; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; CHILE; MAULE; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEEN CHARLOTTE BASIN; QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS;

EID: 84876789752     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50220     Document Type: Article

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