An Overview of the 28 October 2012 Mw 7.7 Earthquake in Haida Gwaii, Canada: A Tsunamigenic Thrust Event Along a Predominantly Strike-Slip Margin

JF Cassidy, GC Rogers, RD Hyndman - Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2014 - Springer
The boundary between the Pacific and North America plates along Canada's west coast is
one of the most seismically active regions of Canada, and is where Canada's two largest …

The October 28, 2012 Mw 7.8 Haida Gwaii underthrusting earthquake and tsunami: Slip partitioning along the Queen Charlotte Fault transpressional plate boundary

T Lay, L Ye, H Kanamori, Y Yamazaki… - Earth and Planetary …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract The Pacific/North American plate boundary is undergoing predominantly right-
lateral strike–slip motion along the Queen Charlotte and Fairweather transform faults. The …

Tectonics and structure of the Queen Charlotte fault zone, Haida Gwaii, and large thrust earthquakes

RD Hyndman - Bulletin of the Seismological Society of …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
This article provides a summary of the structure and tectonic history of the Queen Charlotte
transform fault zone off western Canada, as background to understanding the 2012 M w 7.8 …

Transpression between two warm mafic plates: The Queen Charlotte Fault revisited

KMM Rohr, M Scheidhauer… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
The Queen Charlotte Fault is a transpressive transform plate boundary between the Pacific
and North American plates offshore western Canada. Previous models for the …

Southern African continental margin: Dynamic processes of a transform margin

N Parsiegla, J Stankiewicz, K Gohl… - Geochemistry …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Dynamic processes at sheared margins associated with the formation of sedimentary basins
and marginal ridges are poorly understood. The southern African margin provides an …

Thermal Condition of the 27 October 2012 Mw 7.8 Haida Gwaii Subduction Earthquake at the Obliquely Convergent Queen Charlotte Margin

K Wang, J He, F Schulzeck… - Bulletin of the …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The 2012 M w 7.8 Haida Gwaii earthquake confirmed very oblique subduction and
slip partitioning at the southern Queen Charlotte margin. In this study, we re‐examine the …

Source characteristics of the 2012 Haida Gwaii earthquake sequence

H Kao, SJ Shan, AM Farahbod - Bulletin of the …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
All the significant (ML≥ 4) events in the 2012 Haida Gwaii earthquake sequence are
systematically relocated, and their moment tensor solutions are determined from waveform …

Structure, seismicity, and thermal regime of the Queen Charlotte Transform Margin

AJ Smith, RD Hyndman, JF Cassidy… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines structural, seismicity, thermal, and current deformation constraints on
the tectonic regime of the Queen Charlotte Margin located off the northwest coast of Canada …

Evidence for underthrusting beneath the Queen Charlotte Margin, British Columbia, from teleseismic receiver function analysis

AMM Bustin, RD Hyndman, H Kao… - Geophysical Journal …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Summary The Queen Charlotte Fault zone is the transpressive boundary between the North
America and Pacific Plates along the northwestern margin of British Columbia. Two models …

The Queen Charlotte fault, British Columbia: Seafloor anatomy of a transform fault and its influence on sediment processes

JV Barrie, KW Conway, PT Harris - Geo-Marine Letters, 2013 - Springer
Abstract The Queen Charlotte Fault Zone (QCFZ) off western Canada is the northern
equivalent to the San Andreas Fault Zone, the Pacific–North American plate boundary …