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Dynamics of the Kuril-Kamchatka subduction zone from GPS data

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The Kuril-Kamchatka subduction zone is the most mobile and seismically active region in Northeast Eurasia. The Kuril island arc is one of the few tectonically active regions, where until recently there had been no space geodetic network. The first GPS stations were installed on the Kamchatka Peninsula in 1997, and on the islands of the Kuril arc from Kamchatka to Hokkaido, in 2006. The collected geodetic data allowed us to reveal the geometry of the interplate coupling along the whole Kuril-Kamchatka arc, and also to estimate the source parameters and their features for a number of major earthquakes in this area.

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  1. Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    G. M. Steblov & T. A. Grekova

  2. Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia

    N. F. Vasilenko & A. S. Prytkov

  3. Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

    D. I. Frolov

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Original Russian Text © G.M. Steblov, N.F. Vasilenko, A.S. Prytkov, D.I. Frolov, T.A. Grekova, 2010, published in Fizika Zemli, 2010, No. 5, pp. 77–82.

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Steblov, G.M., Vasilenko, N.F., Prytkov, A.S. et al. Dynamics of the Kuril-Kamchatka subduction zone from GPS data. Izv., Phys. Solid Earth 46, 440–445 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1069351310050095

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