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Voss, N., T. H. Dixon, Z. Liu, R. Malservisi, M. Protti (2018) Do slow slip events trigger large and great megathrust earthquakes? Science Advances 4, eaat8472.

Jiang, Y., Z. Liu, E. E. Davis, S. Y. Schwartz, T. H. Dixon, N. Voss, R. Malservisi, M. Protti (2017) Strain release at the trench during shallow slow slip: The example of Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica. Geophysical Research Letters 44, 4846–4854,doi 10.1002/2017GL072803.

Voss, N. K., R., Malservisi, T. H. Dixon, and M. Protti (2017) Slow slip events in the early part of the earthquake cycle, Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid Earth, 122, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JB013741

Malservisi, R., S.Y. Schwartz, N. Voss, M. Protti, V. Gonzales, T.H. Dixon, Y. Jiang, A.V. Newman, J.A. Richardson, J.I. Walter, D. Voytenko (2015), Multiscale postseismic behavior on a megathrust: the 2012 Nicoya earthquake, Costa Rica, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 16, https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GC005794

Dixon, T. H., Y. Jiang, R. Malservisi, R. McCaffrey, N. Voss, M. Protti, V. Gonzalez (2014) Earthquake and tsunami forecasts: Relation of slow slip events to subsequent earthquake rupture. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 114, 17,039-17,044, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1412299111

Protti M., V. González, A. V. Newman, T. H. Dixon3, S. Y. Schwartz, J. S. Marshall, L Feng, J. I. Walter, R. Malservisi, S. E. Owen (2014) Nicoya earthquake rupture anticipated by GPS measurements of the locked plate interface, Nature Geoscience 7, 117-121, https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2038

Yue, H., T. Lay, S. Y. Schwartz, L. Rivera, M. Protti, T. H. Dixon and S. Owen (2013) The 5 September 2012 Costa Rica Mw 7.6 earthquake rupture process from joint inversion of high-rate GPS, strong-motion, and teleseismic P wave data and its relationship to adjacent plate boundary interface properties. Journal of Geophysical Research, 118, 5453-5466.

Dixon, T. H., S. Schwartz, M. Protti, V. Gonzalez, A. Newman, J. Marshall, J. Spotilla (2013) Detailed data available for recent Costa Rica earthquake. EOS: Trans. Am. Geophys. Union, 94, 17-18

Protti, M.; V. González; J. Freymueller; S. Doelger; 2012; Cocos Island, on Cocos plate, moves at 95 mm/yr towards N33oE and converges with San Andres Island, on the Caribbean plate, at 78 mm/yr; Rev. Biol. Trop. 60 (Suppl. 3): 33-41.

Jiang, Y., S. Wdowinski, T. H. Dixon, M. Hackl, M. Protti, V. Gonzalez (2012) Slow slip events in Costa Rica detected by continuous GPS observations, 2002-2011, Geochem, Geophys., Geosys, 13, Q04006 https://doi.org/10.1029/2012GC004058

Feng, L., A. V. Newman, M. Protti, V. González, Y. Jiang, and T. H. Dixon (2012) Active deformation near the Nicoya Peninsula, northwestern Costa Rica, between 1996 and 2010: Interseismic megathrust coupling. J. Geophys. Research, 117, https://doi.org/10.1029/2012JB009230

Outerbridge, K. C.,,T. H. Dixon, S. Y. Schwartz, J. I. Walter, M. Protti, V. Gonzalez, J. Biggs, M. Thorwart, and W. Rabbel (2010) A tremor and slip event on the Cocos-Caribbean subduction zone as measured by a global positioning system (GPS) and seismic network on the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica. J. Geophys. Res. 115: B10408.

LaFemina P, T. H. Dixon, R. Govers, E. Norabuena, H. Turner, A. Saballos, G. Mattioli, M. Protti, W. Strauch (2009), Fore-arc motion and Cocos Ridge collision in Central America, Geochem, Geophys., Geosys, 10, #5, Article Number: Q05S14.

Turner H. L. III, P. LaFemina, A. Saballos, G. S. Mattioli, P. E. Jansma, T. Dixon (2007) Kinematics of the Nicaraguan forearc from GPS geodesy, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L02302, https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GL027586.

DeShon, H. R., S. Schwartz, A. Newman, V. Gonzalez, M. Protti, L. Dormaan, T. H. Dixon, D. Sampson, E. Flueh (2006) Seismogenic zone structure beneath the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica, from three-dimensional local earthquake P- and S-wave tomography, Geophys. J. Int, 164, 109-124.

Norabuena, E. T. H. Dixon, S. Schwartz, H. DeShon, A. Newman, M. Protti, V. Gonzalez, L. Dorman, E. Flueh, P. Lundgren, F. Pollitz, D. Sampson (2004) Geodetic and seismic constraints on some seismogenic zone processes in Costa Rica, J. Geophys. Res., 109, B11403, https://doi.org/10.1029/2003JB002931.

Wang, K., and T. H. Dixon (2004) Coupling semantics and science in earthquake research, EOS, 85, no. 18, 180-181.

DeShon, H. R., S. Y. Schwartz, S. L. Bilek, L. M. Dorman, V. Gonzalez, J. M. Protti, E. R. Flueh, and T. H. Dixon (2003) Seismogenic zone structure of the southern Middle America Trench, Costa Rica, J. Geophys. Res., 108(B10), 2491.

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