Episodic Tremor and Slip Classic References
Dragert H, Wang K, James TS (2001): A Silent Slip Event on the Deeper Cascadia Subduction Interface. Science 292: 1525-1528. [Original report of GPS-recorded slip event]
Miller MM, Melbourne T, Johnson DJ, Sumner WQ (2002): Periodic Slow Earthquakes from the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Science 295: 2423. [Presents evidence for periodic recurrence of slip events from 10 years of PANGA GPS records]
Obara K (2002): Nonvolcanic Deep Tremor Associated with Subduction in Southwest Japan. Science 296: 1679-1681. [Original report of tremors in the Japanese subduction zone]
Dragert H, Wang K, Rogers G (2004): Geodetic and seismic signatures of episodic tremor and slip in the northern Cascadia subduction zone. Earth Planets Space 56: 1143-1150. [Comprehensive paper on correlated tremor and slip events]
Schwartz SY, Rokosky JM (2007): Slow Slip Events and Seismic Tremor at Circum-Pacific Subduction Zones. Reviews of Geophysics, 45, RG3004. [Timely review paper of circum-Pacific slow slip and tremor activity]
Recent Developments
Rogers G, Dragert H (2003): Episodic Tremor and Slip on the Cascadia Subduction Zone: The Chatter of Silent Slip. Sciencexpress 8 May 2003 / Science 300: 1942. [Original paper on correlation of tremor and slip in the Cascadia subduction zone]
Szeliga W, Melbourne TI, Miller MM, Santillan VM (2004): Southern Cascadia episodic slow earthquakes. Geophysical Research Letters 31: L16602, 4p.
Melbourne TI, Szeliga WM, Miller MM, Santillan VM (2005): Extent and duration of the 2003 Cascadia slow earthquake. Geophysical Research Letters 32: L04301, 4p.
Kao H, Shan S-J, Dragert H, Rogers G, Cassidy JF, and Ramachandran K (2005): A wide depth distribution of seismic tremors along the northern Cascadia margin, Nature, 436, 841-844. [first publication of the unexpected depth distribution of tremor in the northern Cascadia subduction zone]
Kao H, Shan S-J, Dragert H, Rogers G, Cassidy JF, Wang K, James TS, Ramachandran K (2006): Spatial-temporal patterns of seismic tremors in northern Cascadia. Journal of Geophysical Research 111: B03309, 17p.
Shelly DR, Beroza GC, Ide S, Nakamula S (2006): Low-frequency earthquakes in Shikoku, Japan, and their relationship to episodic tremor and slip. Nature 442, 188-191 (13 July 2006), doi:10.1038/nature04931.
Shelly DR, Beroza GC, Ide S (2007): Non-volcanic tremor and low-frequency earthquake swarms. Nature 446, 305-307 (15 March 2007) | doi:10.1038/nature05666.
Ide S, Beroza GC, Shelly DR, Uchide T (2007): A scaling law for slow earthquakes. Nature 447 (3 May 2007) doi:10.1038/nature05780.
Brudzinski MR, Allen RM (2007): Segmentation in episodic tremor and slip all along Cascadia. Geology 35(10): 907-910.
Related Papers
Flück P, Hyndman RD, Wang K (1997): Three-dimensional dislocation model for great earthquakes of the Cascadia subduction zone. Journal of Geophysical Research 102(B9): 20539-20550.
Miller MM, Johnson DJ, Rubin CM, Dragert H, Wang K, Qamar A, Goldfinger C (2001): GPS-determination of along-strike variation in Cascadia margin kinematics: Implications for relative plate motion, subduction zone coupling, and permanent deformation. Tectonics 20(2): 161-176.
Ozawa S, Murakami M, Kaidzu M, Tada T, Sagiya T, Hatanaka Y, Yarai H, Nishimura T (2002): Detection and Monitoring of Ongoing Aseismic Slip in the Tokai Region, Central Japan. Science 298(5595): 1009-1012. [Original report of aseismic slip event in Japan recorded by GPS]
Katsumata A, Kamaya N (2003): Low-frequency continuous tremor around the Moho discontinuity away from volcanoes in the southwest Japan. Geophysical Research Letters 30 (1), 1020, 4p. [Explains tremors by fluids resulting from metamorphic dehydration reactions in the subduction zone]
Kostoglodov V, Singh SK, Santiago JA, Franco SI, Larson KM, Lowry AR, Bilham R (2003): A large silent earthquake in the Guerrero seismic gap, Mexico. Geophysical Research Letters 30(15): 1807, 4p.
McGuire JJ, Segall P (2003): Imaging of aseismic fault slip transients recorded by dense geodetic networks. Geophysical Journal International 155: 778-788.
Wang K, Wells R, Mazzotti S, Hyndman RD, Sagiya T (2003): A revised dislocation model of interseismic deformation of the Cascadia subduction zone. Journal of Geophysical Research 108 (B1): 2026, 13p.
Hyndman RD, Mazzotti S, Weichert D, Rogers GC (2003): Frequency of large crustal earthquakes in Puget Sound - Southern Georgia Strait predicted from geodetic and geological deformation rates. Journal of Geophysical Research 108 (B1): 2033, 12p.
Mazzotti S, Dragert H, Henton J, Schmidt M, Hyndman R, James T, Lu Y, Craymer M (2003): Current tectonics of northern Cascadia from a decade of GPS measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research 108 (B12): 2554, 18p.
Hirn A, Laigle M (2004): Silent Heralds of Megathrust Earthquakes? Science 305: 1917-1918.
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