Seismic slip on an upper-plate normal fault during a large subduction megathrust rupture

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 955-960

  Hicks, Stephen P ^a   Rietbrock, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; FAULT PLANE; FAULT SLIP; SEISMIC DATA; SUBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TSUNAMI EVENT;

CHILE;

EID: 84948427353     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2585     Document Type: Article

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