Continuing megathrust earthquake potential in Chile after the 2014 Iquique earthquake

Nature

Volumn 512, Issue 7514, 2014, Pages 295-298

  Hayes, Gavin P ^a   Herman, Matthew W ^b   Barnhart, William D ^a   Furlong, Kevin P ^b   Riquelme, Sebástian ^c   Benz, Harley M ^a   Bergman, Eric ^d   Barrientos, Sergio ^c   Earle, Paul S ^c   Samsonov, Sergey ^e  

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

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^d Global Seismological Services   (United States)

^e CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT; SEISMICITY; SUBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHILE; CUMULATIVE COULOMB STRESS TRANSFER; EARTHQUAKE; FINITE FAULT MODEL; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; MOMENT DEFICIT CALCULATION; MOMENT TENSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TSUNAMI;

CHILE; IQUIQUE; TARAPACA;

EID: 84906541060     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13677     Document Type: Article

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