Nonuniform and unsteady sliding of a plate boundary in a great earthquake cycle: A numerical simulation using a laboratory-derived friction law

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 93-118

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

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aseismic sliding; Rate and state dependent friction law; Seismic activity; Subduction zone

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; SUBDUCTION;

EID: 0032698099     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000240050256     Document Type: Article

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