Dynamic rupture propagation during the 1891 Nobi, Central Japan, earthquake: A possible extension to the branched faults

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 96, Issue 4 A, 2006, Pages 1257-1266

  Fukuyama, Eiichi ^a   Mikumo, Takeshi ^b  

^a National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; STRAIN; TECTONICS;

BOUNDARY INTEGRAL EQUATION; DYNAMIC RUPTURE PROPAGATION; GEOLOGICAL DISCONTINUITY;

EARTHQUAKES;

BOUNDARY INTEGRAL METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; NOBI FAULT ZONE;

EID: 33748049413     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120050151     Document Type: Article

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