Acceleration of slip motion in deep extensions of seismogenic faults in and below the seismogenic region

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1195-1205

  Hobbs, Bruce E ^a   Tanaka, Hidemi ^b   Iio, Yoshihisa ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULT SLIP;

EID: 1842514498     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03353320     Document Type: Article

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