GPS constraints on the 2011-2012 Oaxaca slow slip event that preceded the 2012 March 20 Ometepec earthquake, southern Mexico

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 197, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1593-1607

  Graham, Shannon E ^a   DeMets, Charles ^a   Cabral Cano, Enrique ^b   Kostoglodov, Vladimir ^b   Walpersdorf, Andrea ^c   Cotte, Nathalie ^c   Brudzinski, Michael ^d   McCaffrey, Robert ^e   Salazar Tlaczani, Luis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UMR 5265   (France)

^d MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Seismic cycle; Space geodetic surveys; Subduction zone processes; Transient deformation

Indexed keywords

GEODETIC SATELLITES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

COULOMB STRESS CHANGES; MODEL MEASUREMENTS; SEISMIC CYCLE; SPACE GEODETIC SURVEYS; SPACE-TIME EVOLUTION; SUBDUCTION INTERFACE; SUBDUCTION ZONE PROCESS; TRANSIENT DEFORMATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

COULOMB CRITERION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GEODESY; GEODETIC DATUM; GPS; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMICITY; SLIP RATE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRIGGER MECHANISM;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; OAXACA;

EID: 84901397150     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggu019     Document Type: Article

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