Tearing and breaking off of subducted slabs as the result of collision of the panama arc-indenter with Northwestern South America

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 2025-2046

  Vargas, Carlos A ^a   Mann, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANELASTIC PROPERTIES; CARIBBEAN SEA; EARTHQUAKE SWARMS; EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN; INTERMEDIATE-DEPTH EARTHQUAKES; LATERAL VARIATIONS; THERMAL STRUCTURE; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

EARTHQUAKES;

ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; BENIOFF ZONE; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; NAZCA PLATE; OCEANIC CRUST; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; COLOMBIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 84878869145     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120328     Document Type: Article

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