Browsing by Subject "Continental margins: convergent"
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(Oxford University Press, 2016)Powerful subduction zone earthquakes rupture thousands of square kilometres along continental margins but at certain locations earthquake rupture terminates. To date, detailed knowledge of the parameters that govern seismic ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2018)On 2016 December 25, an Mw 7.6 earthquake broke a portion of the Southern Chilean subduction zone south of Chiloe Island, located in the central part of the ´ Mw 9.5 1960 Valdivia earthquake. This region is characterized ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2016)We use seismic tomography to investigate the state of the supraslab mantle beneath northern Chile, a part of the Nazca-South America Plate boundary known for frequent megathrust earthquakes and active volcanism. We performed ...