Browsing by Author "Dixon, Timothy H."

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    • Earthquake and tsunami forecasts: Relation of slow slip events to subsequent earthquake rupture 

      Dixon, Timothy H.; Jiang, Yan; Malservisi, Rocco; McCaffrey, Robert; Voss, Nicholas; Protti, Marino; Gonzalez, Victor (National Academy of Sciences, 2014-11-17)
      The 5 September 2012 Mw 7.6 earthquake on the Costa Rica subduction plate boundary followed a 62-y interseismic period. Highprecision GPS recorded numerous slow slip events (SSEs) in the decade leading up to the earthquake, ...

    • Nicoya earthquake rupture anticipated by geodetic measurement of the locked plate interface 

      Protti, Marino; González, Victor; Newman, Andrew; Dixon, Timothy H.; Schwartz, Susan; Marshall, Jeffrey S; Feng, Lujia; Walter, Jacob; Malservisi, Rocco; Owen, Susan E. (Nature Research, 2013-12-22)
      The Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica is one of the few places on Earth where the seismically active plate interface of a subduction zone is directly overlaid by land rather than ocean. At this plate interface, large megathrust ...