Shallow slow earthquakes to decipher future catastrophic earthquakes in the Guerrero seismic gap

New offshore observations in the Guerrero seismic gap discovered shallow slow earthquakes, which suggest that a portion of the plate interface undergoes stable slip. This may explain the long return period of large earthquakes and why have previous large earthquakes not propagated into the gap.

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Main Authors: R. Plata-Martinez, S. Ide, M. Shinohara, E. S. Garcia, N. Mizuno, L. A. Dominguez, T. Taira, Y. Yamashita, A. Toh, T. Yamada, J. Real, A. Husker, V. M. Cruz-Atienza, Y. Ito
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Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/ad426d2645bc4bc1bf613a79ac028096
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