The relationship between seismicity and fault structure on the Discovery transform fault, East pacific rise

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3698-3712

  Wolfson Schwehr, Monica ^a   Boettcher, Margaret S ^a   McGuire, Jeffrey J ^b   Collins, John A ^b  

^a Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Rate of microseismicity varies between rupture patches and rupture barriers; Rupture patches and rupture barriers observed on Discovery transform fault; Step overs in the fault trace > 1 km are not required to terminate ruptures

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; TRANSFORM FAULTS; EARTHQUAKES; GEOPHYSICS; SEISMOLOGY;

CENTROID MOMENT TENSORS; CROSS CORRELATION TECHNIQUES; LARGE EARTHQUAKES; MICROSEISMICITY; MULTIBEAM BATHYMETRY; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOGRAPHS; REPEATING EARTHQUAKE; STEP-OVERS; EAST PACIFIC RISE; FAULT STRUCTURE; PHYSICAL FEATURES;

EARTHQUAKES; FAULTING;

CENTROID MOMENT TENSOR; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; SEISMICITY; TRANSFORM FAULT; SEISMIC MOMENT;

EAST PACIFIC RISE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84915760153     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GC005445     Document Type: Article

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