Earthquake and tsunami forecasts: Relation of slow slip events to subsequent earthquake rupture

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 48, 2014, Pages 17039-17044

  Dixon, Timothy H ^a   Jiang, Yan ^b   Malservisi, Rocco ^a   McCaffrey, Robert ^c   Voss, Nicholas ^a   Protti, Marino ^d   Gonzalez, Victor ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b PACIFIC GEOSCIENCE CENTRE   (Canada)

^c PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Earthquake; GPS; Slow slip events; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

EID: 84914127558     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1412299111     Document Type: Article

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