A physical scaling relation between the size of an earthquake and its nucleation zone size

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 157, Issue 11-12, 2000, Pages 2259-2282

  Ohnaka, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

A slip dependent constitutive law; Earthquake nucleation; High rupture growth resistance; Inhomogeneous fault

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; SCALE EFFECT; SEISMIC SOURCE;

EID: 0034470055     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-7695-7_24     Document Type: Article

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