Spatial variations in crustal and mantle anisotropy across the North American‐Caribbean boundary on Haiti

Accepted/In Press date: 5 May 2020

e-pub ahead of print date: 9 May 2020

Published date: 1 June 2020

Additional Information: Funding Information: The work contained in this paper contains work conducted during a PhD study undertaken as part of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Oil and Gas (Grant NE/M00578X/1). It is 50% funded by Southampton University via their Graduate School of the National Oceanography Centre Southampton (GSNOCS) and 50% funded by NERC both of whose support is gratefully acknowledged. We thank Seismic Equipment Infrastructure in the UK (SEIS-UK) for the use of the instruments and their computing facilities. The facilities of SEIS-UK are supported by NERC under Agreement R8/H10/64. C. A. R. and N. H. acknowledge funding from NERC (NE/M003507/1 and NE/K010654/1) and the European Research Council (GA 638665). C. M. E. is supported by the Australian Research Council (DE190100062). S. L., F. R., and J. C. acknowledge full support from the Insitut des Sciences de la Tere Paris (ISTeP) to the Trans-Haiti project. We thank the Unit? Technique de Sismologie of the Bureau des Mines et de l'Energie, and the URGeo of the Universit? d'Etat d'Haiti for their help in the field. We thank Kelly Guerrier, Sophia Ulysse, and Frantz Saint Preux for their active contribution in installing the seismic stations and collecting the data. We also thank Tom Hall for his involvement in the fieldwork and data processing. Figures were made with the aid of the Generic Mapping Tools (Wessel et al.,?2013). Data for the Trans-Haiti Network (https://www.fdsn.org/networks/detail/ZU_2013/), Canadian National Seismograph Network (https://doi.org/10.7914/SN/CN), and Caribbean USGS Network (https://doi.org/10.7914/SN/CU) can be downloaded from the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology Data Management Center (IRIS-DMC; https://ds.iris.edu/ds/nodes/dmc/). Teleseismic and intermediate depth earthquake were downloaded from the Advanced National Seismic System Comprehensive Catalog (ANSS ComCat; https://doi.org/10.5066/F7MS3QZH). Publisher Copyright: © 2020. The Authors.

Keywords: Caribbean, Haiti, anisotropy, plate boundary, shear wave splitting

Local EPrints ID: 441085

URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/441085

DOI: doi:10.1029/2019JB018438

ISSN: 0148-0227

PURE UUID: 4420ded8-578e-4f39-8825-185cff64e7d0

ORCID for Derek Keir: orcid.org/0000-0001-8787-8446

ORCID for Nicholas Harmon: orcid.org/0000-0002-0731-768X

Date deposited: 29 May 2020 16:31

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