The October 28, 2012 Mw 7.8 Haida Gwaii underthrusting earthquake and tsunami: Slip partitioning along the Queen Charlotte Fault transpressional plate boundary

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 375, Issue , 2013, Pages 57-70

  Lay, Thorne ^a   Ye, Lingling ^a   Kanamori, Hiroo ^b   Yamazaki, Yoshiki ^c   Cheung, Kwok Fai ^c   Kwong, Kevin ^d   Koper, Keith D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Haida Gwaii earthquake; Queen Charlotte Fault; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK SEQUENCE; COMPRESSIONAL STRAIN; EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS; HAIDA GWAII; HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKES; RUPTURE VELOCITIES; STRIKE SLIP FAULTING; STRIKE-SLIP EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKES; FAULT SLIPS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TRANSFORM FAULTS; TSUNAMIS; WATER LEVELS;

STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; OBLIQUE FAULT; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLATE MOTION; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TSUNAMI; UPLIFT; WATER LEVEL;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; MORESBY ISLAND; QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS;

EID: 84881558154     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.05.005     Document Type: Article

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