Seismic Subduction of the Nazca Ridge as Shown by the 1996–97 Peru Earthquakes

• 1 May 1999
• journal article
• research article
• Published by Springer Nature in Pure and Applied Geophysics
• Vol. 154  (3-4) , 753-776
• https://doi.org/10.1007/s000240050251

Abstract

Keywords

• KEY WORDS: SEISMOTECTONICS
• SUBDUCTION
• NAZCA RIDGE
• ASPERITY
• EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE
• AFTERSHOCKS
• SEISMIC GAP
• GREAT EARTHQUAKES
• EARTHQUAKE POTENTIAL.