Effect of glacial-interglacial sea-level changes on the displacement and stress field in the forearc and along the plate interface of subduction zones

• Main Authors: Li, Tao, Hampel, Andrea
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Göttingen : Copernicus GmbH 2012
• Subjects: earthquakes; climate; fluctuations; deformation; margin; alaska; tides; Dewey Decimal Classification500 | Naturwissenschaften550 | Geowissenschaften; Dewey; glacier; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15488/1088; http://www.repo.uni-hannover.de/handle/123456789/1112

Combined seismological, space-geodetic and numerical studies have shown that the seismicity at subduction zones may be modulated by tides and glacier fluctuations on timescales of 1-100 a, because these changes in loads on Earth's surface are able to alter the stress field in the upper plate an...