Little late Holocene strain accumulation and release on the Aleutian megathrust below the Shumagin Islands, Alaska

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2359-2367

  Witter, Robert C ^a   Briggs, Richard W ^a   Engelhart, Simon E ^b   Gelfenbaum, Guy ^a   Koehler, Richard D ^c   Barnhart, William D ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^c Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys   (United States)

Author keywords

Aleutian megathrust; paleoseismology; seismic gap; Shumagin Islands

Indexed keywords

PEAT; SEA LEVEL; TSUNAMIS;

CO-SEISMIC UPLIFTS; GEODETIC OBSERVATION; MEGATHRUST; PALEOSEISMOLOGY; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; SEISMIC GAPS; SHUMAGIN; STRAIN ACCUMULATIONS;

EARTHQUAKES;

BEDROCK; COSEISMIC PROCESS; CREEP; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GEODETIC DATUM; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; PALEOSEISMICITY; SILT; SLIP; STRAIN; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TEPHRA; THRUST; TSUNAMI;

ALASKA; SHUMAGIN ISLANDS; SIMEONOF ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84897955389     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059393     Document Type: Article

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