The 1957 great Aleutian earthquake

1994/03/01 by Jean M. Johnson, Yuichiro Tanioka, Larry J. Ruff +3 · 4 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Aftershock #Epicenter #Fault (geology) #Foreshock #Geological and Geochemical Analysis #Geology #Geometry #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Induced seismicity #Interplate earthquake #Magnitude (astronomy) #Moment magnitude scale #Seismic gap #Seismic moment #Seismology #Slip (aerodynamics) #Subduction #Tectonics #Tsunami earthquake #Waveform #earthquake and tectonic studies

paper · doi:10.1007/bf00875966

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Citations

• Size of great earthquakes of 1837–1974 inferred from tsunami data
• Surface deformation due to shear and tensile faults in a half-space
• Of the May 7, 1986 Andreanof Islands Earthquake source parameters
• The energy release in great earthquakes
• Current plate motions

Cited by

• Aftershock Regions of Aleutian‐Alaska Megathrust Earthquakes, 1938–2021
• Unusually large tsunamis frequent a currently creeping part of the Aleutian megathrust
• Evidence for shallow megathrust slip across the Unalaska seismic gap during the great 1957 Andreanof Islands earthquake, eastern Aleutian Islands, Alaska
• 1957 Andreanof Islands earthquake [wikipedia]