Quantitative modeling of fault-fluid-discharge and fault-dilation-induced fluid-pressure variations in the seismogenic zone

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 183-186

  Matthai S K ^a   Fischer, G ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; ROCKS; SEISMOGRAPHS;

EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; FLUID DISCHARGE; FLUID PRESSURE DROP; FLUID PRESSURES; LOW PERMEABILITY; QUANTITATIVE MODELING; SEISMOGENIC ZONES; SLOW PROPAGATION; ANALOG MODELING; ROCK PROPERTIES;

FAULTING;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; COUNTRY ROCK; DILATION; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; FAULT PLANE; FAULT ZONE; FLUID PRESSURE; MODELING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEISMIC ZONE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGERING; ROCK PROPERTIES; SEISMOGENIC ZONE;

EID: 0029730566     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0183:QMOFFD>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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