Seismic rupture on an oceanic–continental plate boundary: Strike-slip earthquakes along the queen charlotte–fairweather fault

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 105, Issue 2B, 2015, Pages 1129-1142

  Aderhold, K ^a   Abercrombie, R E ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; FAULTING; SEISMOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; DUCTILE DEFORMATIONS; FINITE FAULT MODELING; NORTH AMERICAN PLATES; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PLATE BOUNDARIES; STRIKE-SLIP EARTHQUAKES; TELESEISMIC BODY WAVES;

FAULT SLIPS;

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PLATE BOUNDARY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING;

ALASKA; CRAIG; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84929493196     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120140227     Document Type: Article

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