Coseismic slip and early afterslip of the 2015 Illapel, Chile, earthquake: Implications for frictional heterogeneity and coastal uplift

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 121, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 6172-6191

  Barnhart, William D ^a   Murray, Jessica R ^b   Briggs, Richard W ^c   Gomez, Francisco ^d   Miles, Charles P J ^d   Svarc, Jerry ^b   Riquelme, Sebastian ^e   Stressler, Bryan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

afterslip; Asperity Models; coastal uplift; Illapel earthquake; InSAR; Megathrust earthquake; rate and state friction

Indexed keywords

ASPERITY; CHILE EARTHQUAKE 2010; COASTAL ZONE; COSEISMIC PROCESS; FRICTION; HETEROGENEITY; SLIP RATE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; UPLIFT;

CHILE;

EID: 84981736906     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016JB013124     Document Type: Article

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