Nicoya earthquake rupture anticipated by geodetic measurement of the locked plate interface

• Main Authors: Protti, Marino, González, Victor, Newman, Andrew V., Dixon, Timothy H., Malservisi, Rocco, Owen, Susan E., Schwartz, Susan Y., Marshall, Jeffrey S., Feng, Lujia, Walter, Jacob I.
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Geology::Volcanoes and earthquakes
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103819; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/19299
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica is one of the few places on Earth where the seismically active plate interface of a subduction zone is directly overlaid by land rather than ocean. At this plate interface, large megathrust earthquakes with magnitudes greater than 7 occur approximately every 50 yea...