Coulomb stress transfer and tectonic loading preceding the 2002 Denali fault earthquake

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1662-1674

  Bufe, Charles G ^a  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAILURE (MECHANICAL); GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMOLOGY; STATISTICS; STRESS CONCENTRATION; STRESSES; TECTONICS;

COULOMB STRESS TRANSFER; FAULT EARTHQUAKE; TECTONIC LOADING;

EARTHQUAKES;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COULOMB CRITERION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33750347983     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120050007     Document Type: Article

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