When an oceanic tectonic plate cracks

Jean-Yves Royer ()
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Jean-Yves Royer: Jean-Yves Royer is at the Laboratoire Domaines Océaniques, Institute for Marine Studies, CNRS and University of Brest, 29280 Plouzané, France.

Nature, 2012, vol. 490, issue 7419, 183-185

Abstract: Analyses of two recent earthquakes of great magnitude show how complex the breaking of the oceanic lithosphere can be, how it is linked to earlier great events and how it triggers seismicity worldwide. See Letters p.240, p.245 & p.250

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1038/490183a

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