Subducting-plate Topography and Nucleation of Great and Giant Earthquakes along the South American Trench

Research Article| September 01, 2011 Subducting-plate Topography and Nucleation of Great and Giant Earthquakes along the South American Trench Sara Carena Sara Carena Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences University of Munich Luisenstraße 37, 80333 Munich, Germany scarena@iaag.geo.uni-muenchen.de Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Seismological Research Letters (2011) 82 (5): 629–637. https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.82.5.629 Article history first online: 09 Mar 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation Sara Carena; Subducting-plate Topography and Nucleation of Great and Giant Earthquakes along the South American Trench. Seismological Research Letters 2011;; 82 (5): 629–637. doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.82.5.629 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietySeismological Research Letters Search Advanced Search It has long been recognized that the locations and geometries of large subduction zone thrust earthquakes are influenced by features on the subducting plate (Mogi 1969; Vogt et al. 1976; Kelleher and McCann 1976; Cloos 1992; Bilek 2007; Das and Watts 2009). This phenomenon is particularly evident along the South American trench, where the recent 27 February 2010 Mw 8.8 Maule, Chile, earthquake is the latest in a series of six events larger than Mw ∼ 8.5 that have occurred along the trench since 1900 (Table 1). A striking... You do not have access to this content, please speak to your institutional administrator if you feel you should have access.