Scattered waves from low-frequency earthquakes and plate boundary structure in northern Cascadia

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 4238-4243

  Nowack, Robert L ^a   Bostock, Michael G ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Body Waves; Seismology; Subduction Zones

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVES; CRUSTAL VELOCITY; LOW-FREQUENCY EARTHQUAKES; LOW-VELOCITY ZONE; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLATE BOUNDARY MODELS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; WAVEFORM MODELING;

EARTHQUAKES; SCATTERING; SEISMOLOGY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEITY; PLATE BOUNDARY; SCATTERING; SEISMOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THRUST; WAVE;

CASCADIA BASIN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84883122063     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50826     Document Type: Article

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