Subducting seamounts control interplate coupling and seismic rupture in the 2014 Iquique earthquake area
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Subducting seamounts control interplate coupling and seismic rupture in the 2014 Iquique earthquake area
To date, the parameters that determine the rupture area of great subduction zone earthquakes remain contentious. On 1 April 2014, the Mw 8.1 Iquique earthquake ruptured a portion of the well-recognized northern Chile seismic gap but left large highly coupled areas un-ruptured. Marine seismic reflection and swath bathymetric data indicate that structural variations in the subducting Nazca Plate ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature Communications
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9267