Delayed triggering of the 1999 Hector Mine earthquake by viscoelastic stress transfer

Nature

Volumn 411, Issue 6834, 2001, Pages 180-183

  Freed, Andrew M ^a   Lin, Jian ^b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLENESS; DUCTILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS; VISCOELASTICITY;

ROCK FRICTION;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE; INDUCED SEISMICITY; MINE; STRESS; TRIGGER MECHANISM;

ARTICLE; EARTHQUAKE; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SIMULATION; STRESS; SURFACE PROPERTY; VISCOELASTICITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035837337     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35075548     Document Type: Article

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