Search Results - "Ammon, Charles J"

Depth-varying rupture properties of subduction zone megathrust faults by Lay, Thorne, Kanamori, Hiroo, Ammon, Charles J., Koper, Keith D., Hutko, Alexander R., Ye, Lingling, Yue, Han, Rushing, Teresa M.

“…Subduction zone plate boundary megathrust faults accommodate relative plate motions with spatially varying sliding behavior. The 2004 Sumatra‐Andaman (Mw 9.2),…”
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Multiple plates subducting beneath Colombia, as illuminated by seismicity and velocity from the joint inversion of seismic and gravity data by Syracuse, Ellen M., Maceira, Monica, Prieto, Germán A., Zhang, Haijiang, Ammon, Charles J.

“…Subduction beneath the northernmost Andes in Colombia is complex. Based on seismicity distributions, multiple segments of slab appear to be subducting, and arc…”
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Crust and Upper Mantle Structure Beneath the Eastern United States by Chai, Chengping, Ammon, Charles J., Maceira, Monica, Herrmann, Robert

“…The Eastern United States (EUS) has a complex geological history and hosts several seismic active regions. We investigate the subsurface structure beneath the…”
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A rupture model of the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake by Ammon, Charles J., Lay, Thorne, Kanamori, Hiroo, Cleveland, Michael

“…The 11 March 2011 Tohoku Earthquake ruptured the interplate boundary off-shore of east Japan, with fault displacements of up to 40 m and a rupture duration of…”
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A great earthquake doublet and seismic stress transfer cycle in the central Kuril islands by Kanamori, Hiroo, Lay, Thorne, Ammon, Charles J

“…Temporal variations of the frictional resistance on subduction-zone plate boundary faults associated with the stick-slip cycle of large interplate earthquakes…”
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Joint inversion of surface wave velocity and gravity observations and its application to central Asian basins shear velocity structure by Maceira, Monica, Ammon, Charles J.

“…We implement and apply a method to the jointly inverted of surface wave group velocities and gravity anomalies observations. Surface wave dispersion…”
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The 2006-2007 Kuril Islands great earthquake sequence by Lay, Thorne, Kanamori, Hiroo, Ammon, Charles J., Hutko, Alexander R., Furlong, Kevin, Rivera, Luis

“…The southwestern half of a ∼500 km long seismic gap in the central Kuril Island arc subduction zone experienced two great earthquakes with extensive preshock…”
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Intraslab rupture triggering megathrust rupture coseismically in the 17 December 2016 Solomon Islands Mw 7.9 earthquake by Lay, Thorne, Ye, Lingling, Ammon, Charles J., Kanamori, Hiroo

“…The 17 December 2016 Solomon Islands earthquake (Mw 7.9) initiated ~103 km deep in the subducting Solomon Sea slab near the junction of the Solomon Islands and…”
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The 17 July 2006 Java tsunami earthquake by Ammon, Charles J., Kanamori, Hiroo, Lay, Thorne, Velasco, Aaron A.

“…The 17 July 2006 Java earthquake involved thrust faulting in the Java trench and excited a deadly tsunami (∼5–8 m) that inundated the southern coast of Java…”
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Rupture Process of the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake by Ammon, Charles J., Ji, Chen, Thio, Hong-Kie, Robinson, David, Ni, Sidao, Hjorleifsdottir, Vala, Kanamori, Hiroo, Lay, Thorne, Das, Shamita, Helmberger, Don, Ichinose, Gene, Polet, Jascha, Wald, David

“…The 26 December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake initiated slowly, with small slip and a slow rupture speed for the first 40 to 60 seconds. Then the rupture…”
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Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake of 26 December 2004 by Lay, Thorne, Kanamori, Hiroo, Ammon, Charles J, Nettles, Meredith, Ward, Steven N, Aster, Richard C, Beck, Susan L, Bilek, Susan L, Brudzinski, Michael R, Butler, Rhett, DeShon, Heather R, Ekström, Göran, Satake, Kenji, Sipkin, Stuart

“…The two largest earthquakes of the past 40 years ruptured a 1600-kilometer-long portion of the fault boundary between the Indo-Australian and southeastern…”
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Relocation of Light and Moderate‐Magnitude (M4–6) Seismicity Along the Central Mid‐Atlantic by K. Michael Cleveland, Charles J. Ammon, Jonas Kintner

“…Abstract We estimate precise relative epicentroid locations of earthquakes along the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge (MAR) between 12°N and 19°N using intermediate‐period…”
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Crustal structure in Ethiopia and Kenya from receiver function analysis: Implications for rift development in eastern Africa by Dugda, Mulugeta T., Nyblade, Andrew A., Julia, Jordi, Langston, Charles A., Ammon, Charles J., Simiyu, Silas

“…Crustal structure in Kenya and Ethiopia has been investigated using receiver function analysis of broadband seismic data to determine the extent to which the…”
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Lithospheric Structure of Greenland From Ambient Noise and Earthquake Surface Wave Tomography by Pourpoint, Maeva, Anandakrishnan, Sridhar, Ammon, Charles J., Alley, Richard B.

“…We present a high‐resolution shear wave velocity model of Greenland's lithosphere from regional and teleseismic Rayleigh waves recorded by the Greenland Ice…”
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Intraplate deformation adjacent to the Macquarie Ridge south of New Zealand—The tectonic evolution of a complex plate boundary by Hayes, Gavin P., Furlong, Kevin P., Ammon, Charles J.

“…The distribution of relocated seismicity and the evolving shape of fracture zones through time in the oceanic crust of the Australian Plate adjacent to the…”
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Continental crust composition constrained by measurements of crustal Poisson's ratio by Zandt, George, Ammon, Charles J

“…Poisson's ratio, sigma, can be determined uniquely from the ratio of P- to S-wave seismic velocity and provides a better diagnostic of crustal composition than…”
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Inverting interpolated receiver functions with surface wave dispersion and gravity: Application to the western U.S. and adjacent Canada and Mexico by Chai, Chengping, Ammon, Charles J., Maceira, Monica, Herrmann, Robert B.

“…We use P wave receiver functions from the western U.S. and adjacent regions to construct a receiver function wavefield interpolation scheme that helps to…”
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The 2009 Samoa–Tonga great earthquake triggered doublet by Lay, Thorne, Ammon, Charles J., Kanamori, Hiroo, Rivera, Luis, Koper, Keith D., Hutko, Alexander R.

“…Double strike: two linked earthquakes caused 2009 South Pacific tsunami The tsunami that struck the Samoan and northern Tongan islands in September 2009 was…”
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InSAR and seismic analyses of the 2014–15 earthquake sequence near Bushkan, Iran: shallow faulting in the core of an anticline fold by Kintner, Jonas A, Wauthier, Christelle, Ammon, Charles J

“…SUMMARY From 2014 December 30 to 2015 January 10, a moderate earthquake sequence shook the region 25 km southeast of the village of Bushkan within the central…”
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Possible large near-trench slip during the 2011 M w 9.0 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake by Lay, Thorne, Ammon, Charles J., Kanamori, Hiroo, Xue, Lian, Kim, Marina J.

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