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Pritchard et al. 2006
Pritchard, M.E., Ji, C. and Simons, M. (2006). Distribution of slip from 11 Mw > 6 earthquakes in the northern Chile subduction zone. Journal of Geophysical Research 111: doi: 10.1029/2005JB004013. issn: 0148-0227.

We use interferometric synthetic aperture radar, GPS, and teleseismic data to constrain the relative location of coseismic slip from 11 earthquakes on the subduction interface in northern Chile (23¿--25¿S) between the years 1993 and 2000. We invert body wave waveforms and geodetic data both jointly and separately for the four largest earthquakes during this time period (1993 Mw 6.8; 1995 Mw 8.1; 1996 Mw 6.7; 1998 Mw 7.1). While the location of slip in the teleseismic-only, geodetic-only, and joint slip inversions is similar for the small earthquakes, there are differences for the 1995 Mw 8.1 event, probably related to nonuniqueness of models that fit the teleseismic data. There is a consistent mislocation of the Harvard centroid moment tensor locations of many of the 6 6 earthquakes, as well as three Mw > 7 events from the 1980s. All of these earthquakes appear to rupture different portions of the fault interface and do not rerupture a limited number of asperities.

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Keywords
Seismology, Earthquake source observations, Radio Science, Interferometry (1207, 1209, 1242), Seismology, Subduction zones (1207, 1219, 1240), Geodesy and Gravity, Satellite geodesy, results (6929, 7215, 7230, 7240), Geodesy and Gravity, Seismic cycle related deformations (6924, 7209, 7223, 7230)
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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American Geophysical Union
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