Seismogenic zone structure beneath the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica, from three-dimensional local earthquake P- and S-wave tomography
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Heather R. DeShon,1∗ Susan Y. Schwartz, Andrew V. Newman,2 Victor González,3 Marino Protti,3 LeRoy M. Dorman,4 Timothy H. Dixon,5 Daniel E. Sampson1 and Ernst R. Flueh6 1University of California-Santa Cruz, Earth Sciences Department & IGPP, Santa Cruz, California, USA 2Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 3Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico de Costa Rica-UNA, Heredia, Costa Rica 4University of California-San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, USA 5University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, Florida, USA 6IFM-GEOMAR and SFB574, Kiel, Germany
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