NICOYA, COSTA RICA, TRANS-PENINSULA GPS EXPERIMENT AND INTER-PLATE COUPLING
Date
2003-06-30Author
Iinuma, Takeshi
Protti, Marino
Obana, Koichiro
Miyazaki, Shinichi
González, Victor
Van der Laat, Rodolfo
Kato, Teruyuki
Kaneda, Yoshiyuki
Hernández, Enrique
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Since 2001, a GPS observation project has been carried out on the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica. Costa Rica is located on the western margin of the Caribbean plate, and the Cocos plate is subducting under the Caribbean plate from the Mesoamerican Trench. The speed of convergence between the two plates has caused large earthquakes on the west coast of Costa Rica. Desde el 2001 se lleva a cabo un proyecto de observación GPS en la península de Nicoya, Costa Rica. Costa Rica se encuentra en el margen occidental de la placa del Caribe, y la placa Cocos está subductando bajo la del Caribe desde la Fosa Mesoamericana. La velocidad de convergencia entre las dos placas han provocado grandes terremotos en la costa occidental de Costa Rica.
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