An experimental trial to detect precursory slips by transmission waves across a fault

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 3907-3910

  Iwasa, Koji ^a   Yoshioka, Naoto ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHEAR STRESS; STRESS ANALYSIS; FAULT DETECTION; SHEAR WAVES; SLIP FORMING; STICK-SLIP; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

NORMAL STRESS HOLDING TEST (NSHT); SHEAR STRESS INCREASING TEST (SSIT); ASPERITY CONTACTS; CONTACT SIZE; CONTACT TIME; DIRECT SHEAR APPARATUS; DYNAMIC RUPTURES; EXPERIMENTAL TRIALS; NORMAL STRESS; P- AND S-WAVES;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SHEAR FLOW;

FAULTING; RUPTURE; SEISMIC METHOD; SLIP;

EID: 0032532892     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900048     Document Type: Article

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