Stress distribution along the Fairweather-Queen Charlotte transform fault system

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 2001-2008

  Bufe, Charles G ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HAZARDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SEISMOLOGY; STRESS CONCENTRATION; VISCOELASTICITY;

FAIRWEATHER-QUEEN CHARLOTTE TRANSFORM FAULT SYSTEM; LOADING MODEL; STRESS TRANSFER; TECTONIC LOADING;

TECTONICS;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; EARTHQUAKE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; PACIFIC PLATE; STRESS FIELD; TRANSFORM FAULT;

EID: 28144445328     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120040171     Document Type: Article

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