Earthquake activity related to seismic cycles in a model for a heterogeneous strike-slip fault

Tectonophysics

Volumn 423, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 137-145

  Zöller, Gert ^a   Hainzl, Sebastian ^a   Ben Zion, Yehuda ^b   Holschneider, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Criticality; Earthquake dynamics; Fault models; Heterogeneities; Ruptures; Seismicity

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITION; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMICITY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

EID: 33746931722     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2006.03.007     Document Type: Article

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