Published June 1984
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Seismic potential associated with subduction in the northwestern United States
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Heaton, Thomas H.
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Kanamori, Hiroo
Abstract
Despite good evidence of present-day convergence of the Juan de Fuca and North American plates, there has been remarkably little historical seismic activity along the shallow part of the Juan de Fuca subduction zone. Although we cannot completely rule out the possibility that the plate motion is being accommodated by aseismic creep, we find that the Juan de Fuca subduction zone shares many features with other subduction zones that have experienced great earthquakes.
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© 1984 by the Seismological Society of America. Manuscript received 16 August 1983. We thank Clarence Allen, Don Anderson, Bill Ellsworth, Tom Hanks, Paul Somerville, and Wayne Thatcher for critical reviews of the manuscript. This research was partially supported by NSF Grant EAR 811-6023.Attached Files
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- EAR 811-6023
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- Caltech Seismological Laboratory
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- 4070