Self-driven mode switching of earthquake activity on a fault system

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 172, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 11-21

  Ben Zion, Yehuda ^a   Dahmen, Karin ^b   Lyakhovsky, Vladimir ^c   Ertas, Deniz ^d   Agnon, Amotz ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic properties; Earthquakes; Non linear distortion; Seismicity

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULT ZONE; SEISMICITY; TECTONIC SETTING;

EID: 0033569033     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00187-9     Document Type: Article

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