Faulting in vertically inhomogeneous media and its geophysical implications

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 2893-2896

  Rybicki, Kacper R ^a   Yamashita, Teruo ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Earthquake rupture; Faulting

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BRITTLE FRACTURE; EARTHQUAKES; PORE PRESSURE; RIGIDITY; SEDIMENTS; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR STRESS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; FAULTING; GEOPHYSICS;

STRESS DROP; STRIKE SLIP FAULTING; DRIVING STRESS; GEOPHYSICAL IMPLICATIONS; HIGH-TO-LOW; INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; NEGATIVE STRESS; RAPID TRANSITIONS;

TECTONICS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULTING; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

EID: 0032148212     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02176     Document Type: Article

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