When faults communicate: Viscoelastic coupling and earthquake clustering in a simple two-fault system

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Lynch, J C ^a   Burgmann R ^a   Richards, M A ^a   Ferencz, R M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODAL ANALYSIS; VISCOELASTICITY; GEOPHYSICS;

FAULT SYSTEMS; 3D FINITE ELEMENT MODEL; BIMODAL DISTRIBUTION; BREAKING STRENGTH; EARTHQUAKE CLUSTERING; EARTHQUAKE CYCLES; SEISMOGENIC FAULTS; SEPARATION DISTANCES; VISCOELASTIC COUPLING;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING; FAULTING;

COUPLING; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULT SLIP; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 0042190661     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016765     Document Type: Article

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