3-D simulation of the occurrence of slow slip events in the Tokai region with a rate- and state-dependent friction law

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2037-2050

  Kuroki, Hidekuni ^a   Ito, Hidemi M ^b   Takayama, Hiroyuki ^a   Yoshida, Akio ^b  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; FRICTION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; SEISMIC WAVES; STRAIN;

INTERPLATE EARTHQUAKES; SLOW SLIP EVENTS; TEMPORAL CHANGES; VOLUMETRIC STRAINS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE; FAULT SLIP; FRICTION; GPS; SLIP RATE; STRAIN ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

AICHI; ASIA; CHUBU; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOKAI [AICHI]; WORLD;

EID: 14344255816     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120030198     Document Type: Article

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