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Research article
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16 Feb 2016
Research article |
| 16 Feb 2016
Tremor during ice-stream stick slip
Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
E. M. Dunham
Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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Short summary
Small repeating earthquakes occur at the ice-bed interface of the Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica. The earthquakes occur as rapidly as 20 earthquakes/s. We conduct numerical simulations of these earthquakes that include elastic and frictional forces as well as seismic wave propagation. We create synthetic seismograms and compare these synthetics to observed seismograms in order to constrain subglacial parameters. We comment on decadal-scale changes in these parameters.
Small repeating earthquakes occur at the ice-bed interface of the Whillans Ice Stream, West...
