A numerical study on seismic coupling along subduction zones using a laboratory-derived friction law

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 102, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 51-68

  Kato, Naoyuki ^a,b   Hirasawa, Tomowo ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Geol Survey Japan   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRICTION; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; SEISMIC COUPLING; SLIP; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

EID: 0030702804     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(96)03264-5     Document Type: Article

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