Shallow Subduction Zones: Seismicity, Mechanics and Seismic Potential

Reprint from Pure and Applied Geophysics (PAGEOPH), Volume 142 (1994), No. 1

Klappentext

Reprint from Pure and Applied Geophysics (PAGEOPH), Volume 142 (1994), No. 1

Inhalt

The 1957 great Aleutian earthquake.- The rupture process and tectonic implications of the great 1964 Prince William Sound earthquake.- Coseismic slip in the 1964 Prince William Sound earthquake A new geodetic inversion.- Seismicity trends and potential for large earthquakes in the Alaska-Aleutian region.- Rupture process of large earthquakes in the northern Mexico subduction zone.- Global variability in subduction thrust zone-forearc systems.- Large thrust earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.