Seismological analyses of the 2010 March 11, Pichilemu, Chile MW 7.0 and MW 6.9 coastal intraplate earthquakes

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 197, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 414-434

  Ruiz, Javier A ^a   Hayes, Gavin P ^b   Carrizo, Daniel ^c   Kanamori, Hiroo ^d   Socquet, Anne ^e   Comte, Diana ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b US Geological Survey National Earthquake Information Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Continental margins: convergent; Earthquake source observations; Seismicity and tectonics

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGINS: CONVERGENT; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE MODELS; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE OBSERVATIONS; INTRAPLATE EARTHQUAKES; INVERSION PARAMETERS; SEISMIC MOMENT TENSOR; SEISMICITY AND TECTONICS; TELESEISMIC DISTANCES;

CLOCKS; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; SEISMOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

FAULTING;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONVERGENT MARGIN; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULTING; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMICITY; TECTONIC SETTING; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

CHILE;

EID: 84897860991     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggt513     Document Type: Article

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