@article {gase_toques_2025,
	title = {TOQUES: An Ocean-Bottom Seismometer Dataset on the Central Queen Charlotte Fault, Southeast Alaska},
	journal = {Seismological Research Letters},
	year = {2025},
	month = {mar},
	abstract = {Plate boundaries in the oceans are often poorly monitored. Though typically less remote than the deep sea, shallow marine environments with seafloor depths \&lt;0.5~km can be especially challenging for seismic experiments due to natural and anthropogenic hazards and noise sources that can affect instrument survival and data quality. The Queen Charlotte fault (QCF) is part of a transform plate boundary that follows the continental shelf of the Alaska Panhandle and central British Columbia. This fault system accommodates dextral slip between the Pacific and North American plates and has hosted several historic Mw \&gt; 7 earthquakes. In August 2021, we deployed 28 broadband ocean-bottom seismometers (OBSs) along the central QCF for the {\textquotedblleft}Transform Obliquity along the Queen Charlotte Fault and Earthquake Study{\textquotedblright} (TOQUES) to investigate fault architecture and local seismicity. Deployment depths varied between 0.2 and 2.5~km below sea level, with half of the instruments deployed in shallow water (\&lt;0.5~km depth). We describe the scientific motivations for the TOQUES broadband OBS array, present data metrics, and discuss factors that influence data quality and instrument survival. We show that many opportunities exist for scientific study of shallow marine environments and the solid earth. Despite concerns that shallow water was responsible for the risk of data or instrument loss, direct relationships between instrument success and water depth are inconclusive. Rather, instrument success may be more related to the ability of different instrument designs to withstand shallow-water conditions.},
	issn = {0895-0695},
	doi = {10.1785/0220240380},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1785/0220240380},
	author = {Gase, Andrew C. and Roland, Emily C. and Worthington, Lindsay L. and Walton, Maureen A. L. and Bostock, Michael G. and Nedimovi{\'c}, Mladen R. and Collins, John A. and Brandl, Collin C. and Jaye Oliva, Sarah and Sun, Tianhaozhe}
}
@article {becel_tsunamigenic_2017,
	title = {Tsunamigenic structures in a creeping section of the Alaska subduction zone},
	journal = {Nature Geoscience},
	volume = {10},
	number = {8},
	year = {2017},
	note = {Publisher: Nature Publishing Group},
	pages = {609{\textendash}613},
	abstract = {Segments of subduction zones that are capable of generating tsunamigenic earthquakes appear to have characteristic structural configurations. These structures include heterogeneous plate interfaces, a small wedge of deformed sediment at the toe of the overriding plate (the frontal prism), and splay faults in the crust of the overriding plate that root within the plate boundary megathrust. Here we use seismic reflection imaging to show that these features also exist within a creeping segment of the Alaska subduction zone, the Shumagin Gap. We identify an active crustal-scale normal fault system that dips landward and resembles that involved in the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake in Japan. We also find that the Shumagin Gap has a small frontal prism, a deep-water splay fault, and that the plate interface here is rough and thinly sedimented. We propose that lateral propagation of rupture from a neighbouring segment into the Shumagin Gap may explain a tsunamigenic earthquake that occurred there in 1788 and that tsunamigenic potential should be considered in hazard assessments for the region. Our results demonstrate that structural configurations similar to those in Tohoku may exist in other subduction zones, including within creeping segments or segments with no record of historical megathrust earthquakes, but are under-recognized. Identifying similar configurations globally may improve our ability to anticipate regions capable of generating large tsunamis.},
	keywords = {Geodynamics, Geology, Natural hazards, seismology, Tectonics},
	issn = {1752-0908},
	doi = {10.1038/ngeo2990},
	url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo2990},
	author = {B{\'e}cel, Anne and Shillington, Donna J. and Delescluse, Matthias and Nedimovi{\'c}, Mladen R. and Abers, Geoffrey A. and Saffer, Demian M. and Webb, Spahr C. and Keranen, Katie M. and Roche, Pierre-Henri and Li, Jiyao and Kuehn, Harold}
}
