Short-time scale correlation between slow slip and tremor in Cascadia

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1316-1329

  Hawthorne, J C ^a,b   Rubin, A M ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

borehole strain data; slow earthquakes; tremor

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; BOREHOLE; CORRELATION; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; MICROTREMOR; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMOLOGY; SLIP; STRAIN RATE;

CASCADIA MARGIN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84876937112     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrb.50103     Document Type: Article

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