Imaging slow slip fronts in Cascadia with high precision cross-station tremor locations

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 5371-5392

  Rubin, Allan M ^a   Armbruster, John G ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascadia subduction zone; episodic tremor and slip; slow slip; tectonic tremor; tremor location algorithms

Indexed keywords

CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE; EPISODIC TREMOR AND SLIP; LOCATION ALGORITHMS; SLOW SLIP; TECTONIC TREMORS;

GEOLOGY; GEOPHYSICS;

VEHICLE ROUTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; ARRIVAL TIME; CODA; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; ERROR ANALYSIS; PRECISION; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMICITY; SLIP RATE; STRESS FIELD; TECTONIC SETTING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE; PACIFIC OCEAN; VANCOUVER ISLAND;

EID: 84893330817     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GC005031     Document Type: Article

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