Variation in the thermal and dehydration regime below Central America: Insights for the seismogenic plate interface

Summary: Slow earthquakes predominant in Costa Rica indicate unstable faulting of segmented Central American megathrusts, but the recurrence of episodic tremors and slips reported to precede a giant earthquake remains still enigmatic. The underlying mechanism is related to the variation in the coupl...

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Main Authors: Rui Qu, Yingfeng Ji, Lijun Liu, Weiling Zhu, Ye Zhu, Chaodi Xie, Shoichi Yoshioka, Haris Faheem, Lin Ding
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-10-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004223020138