The 5 September 2012 Nicoya, Costa Rica Mw 7.6 earthquake rupture process from joint inversion of high-rate GPS, strong-motion, and teleseismic P wave data and its relationship to adjacent plate boundary interface properties

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 118, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 5453-5466

  Yue, Han ^a   Lay, Thorne ^a   Schwartz, Susan Y ^a   Rivera, Luis ^b   Protti, Marino ^c   Dixon, Timothy H ^d   Owen, Susan ^e   Newman, Andrew V ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

2012 Costa Rica earthquake; Finite fault model; Hypocenter relocation; Seismic Geodetic joint inversion

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEODETIC DATUM; GPS; GROUND MOTION; MOHO; NUMERICAL MODEL; P-WAVE; PLATE BOUNDARY; SATELLITE DATA; SEISMIC MOMENT; SLIP RATE; STRONG MOTION; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

COSTA RICA; NICOYA PENINSULA;

EID: 84889057489     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrb.50379     Document Type: Article

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