Joint Inversion of High-Rate GPS and Teleseismic Observations for Rupture Process of the 23 June 2014 Mw 7.9 Rat Islands Archipelago Alaska Intermediate Depth Earthquake

• Main Authors: Ye, Lingling, Lay, Thorne, Kanamori, Hiroo, Freymueller, Jeffre, Rivera, Luis
• Other Authors: Institut de physique du globe de Strasbourg (IPGS), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg I-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2016
• Subjects: [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences; Pacific; Rat Islands; Archipelago; Alaska
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-03032586

International audience On 23 June 2014, a large (Mw 7.9) earthquake ruptured within the subducting Pacific plate~ 100km below the Rat Islands archipelago, Alaska. The focal mechanism indicates two possible rupture orientations:(1) on a shallowly dipping fault plane (strike 206, dip 24, rake‐14) stri...