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Geology Faculty Publications

2011

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The 2007 Nazko, British Columbia, Earthquake Sequence: Injection Of Magma Deep In The Crust Beneath The Anahim Volcanic Belt, J. F. Cassidy, N. Balfour, C. Hickson, H. Kao, R. White, Jacqueline Caplan-Auerbach, S. Mazzotti, G. C. Rogers, I. Al-Khoubbi, A. L. Bird, L. Esteban, M. Kelman, J. Hutchinson, D. Mccormack Aug 2011

The 2007 Nazko, British Columbia, Earthquake Sequence: Injection Of Magma Deep In The Crust Beneath The Anahim Volcanic Belt, J. F. Cassidy, N. Balfour, C. Hickson, H. Kao, R. White, Jacqueline Caplan-Auerbach, S. Mazzotti, G. C. Rogers, I. Al-Khoubbi, A. L. Bird, L. Esteban, M. Kelman, J. Hutchinson, D. Mccormack

Geology Faculty Publications

On 9 October 2007, an unusual sequence of earthquakes began in central British Columbia about 20 km west of the Nazko cone, the most recent (circa 7200 yr) volcanic center in the Anahim volcanic belt. Within 25 hr, eight earthquakes of magnitude 2.3–2.9 occurred in a region where no earthquakes had previously been recorded. During the next three weeks, more than 800 microearthquakes were located (and many more detected), most at a depth of 25–31 km and within a radius of about 5 km. After about two months, almost all activity ceased. The clear P- and S-wave arrivals …