Seismic rupture during the 1960 Great Chile and the 2010 Maule earthquakes limited by a giant Pleistocene submarine slope failure

Terra Nova

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 472-477

  Geersen, Jacob ^a,c   Völker, David ^a   Behrmann, Jan H ^a   Kläschen, Dirk ^a   Weinrebe, Wilhelm ^a   Krastel, Sebastian ^a,d   Reichert, Christian ^b  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILE EARTHQUAKE 2010; COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; PLEISTOCENE; SLOPE FAILURE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUBMARINE SLOPE; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

CHILE; HONSHU; JAPAN; MAULE; TOHOKU;

EID: 84886749986     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ter.12060     Document Type: Article

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