How fast is rupture during an earthquake? New insights from the 1999 Turkey earthquakes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 14, 2001, Pages 2723-2726

  Bouchon, Michel ^a   Bouin, Marie Paule ^b   Karabulut, Hayrullah ^c   Nafi Toksoz M ^d   Dietrich, Michel ^a   Rosakis, Ares J ^e  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^c BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; FRACTURE; SHEAR STRENGTH; VELOCITY;

SUPERSHEAR RUPTURE;

GEOPHYSICS;

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT PROPAGATION; KOCAELI EARTHQUAKE 1999; VELOCITY;

IZMIT; TURKEY;

EID: 0035878293     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013112     Document Type: Article

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