Effect of fault bend on the rupture propagation process of stick-slip

Tectonophysics

Volumn 310, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 81-99

  Kato, Naoyuki ^a   Satoh, Takashi ^b   Lei, Xinglin ^b   Yamamoto, Kiyohiko ^a   Hirasawa, Tomowo ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Constitutive friction law; Earthquake doublet; Fault bend; Retarded rupture; Rock friction

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULT GEOMETRY; FRICTION; RUPTURE; STICK-SLIP;

EID: 0033567597     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00149-3     Document Type: Article

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