Central Cascadia subduction zone creep

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1515-1532

  Schmalzle, Gina M ^a,b   McCaffrey, Robert ^c   Creager, Kenneth C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b BOS Technologies LLC   (United States)

^c PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

block model; Cascadia; episodic tremor and slip; GPS; Siletzia; slow slip

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LOCKS (FASTENERS); SUBSIDENCE; TECTONICS; TIME SERIES;

BLOCK MODELING; CASCADIA; EPISODIC TREMOR AND SLIP; SILETZIA; SLOW SLIP;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BLOCK ROTATION; COASTAL ZONE; COSEISMIC PROCESS; CREEP; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; GPS; PALEOSEISMICITY; SLIP RATE; SUBSIDENCE; THRUST FAULT; TRANSITION ZONE; UPLIFT;

CALIFORNIA; CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE; OREGON; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 84901380509     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GC005172     Document Type: Article

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