Volcanic Activity and Great Earthquakes at Convergent Plate Margins
- 12 August 1977
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 197 (4304), 655-657
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.197.4304.655
Abstract
Volcanoes are unusually quiet for periods of a few years to a few decades prior to great shallow-thrust earthquakes. This is the most obvious part of an apparent pattern of volcanic activity related to the occurrence of great earthquakes at some convergent plate margins.Keywords
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