Complementary slip distributions of the August 4, 2003 Mw 7.6 and November 17, 2013 Mw 7.8 South Scotia Ridge earthquakes

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 401, Issue , 2014, Pages 215-226

  Ye, Lingling ^a   Lay, Thorne ^a   Koper, Keith D ^b   Smalley, Robert ^c   Rivera, Luis ^d   Bevis, Michael G ^e   Zakrajsek, Andrés F ^f   Teferle, Felix Norman ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f INSTITUTO ANTÁRTICO ARGENTINO   (Argentina)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Fault asperities; Finite fault models; High rate GPS; Scotia Plate earthquakes; Strike slip faulting

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; SURFACE WAVES;

AFTERSHOCK DISTRIBUTIONS; FAULT MODEL; FINITE FAULT INVERSIONS; GROUND MOTION RECORDING; HIGH RATE; SEISMICALLY ACTIVE REGION; STRIKE SLIP FAULTING; STRIKE-SLIP EARTHQUAKES;

STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; SLIP RATE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

ANTARCTICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; LAURIE ISLAND; SCOTIA RIDGE; SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS;

EID: 84903395500     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.06.007     Document Type: Article

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