Oceanic Transform Faulting: Foreshocks, Seismic and Aseismic Slip on the Quebrada, Discovery and Gofar Transforms

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole MA

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Abstract

This project will deploy 30 ocean bottom seismometers at the Quebrada/Discovery/Gofar transform fault system on the equatorial East Pacific Rise for a period of one year to study the mechanical processes that control earthquake nucleation and the relative partitioning of seismic and aseismic fault slip.