Seismicity and stress evolution in heterogeneous faults with various degrees of roughness

Tectonophysics

Volumn 424, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 307-318

  Wang, Wei Hau ^a   Huang, Sheng Ming ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Asperities; Earthquake; Heterogeneous faults; Stress evolution

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT; SEISMICITY; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 33748419825     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2006.03.042     Document Type: Article

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