Frictional heat from faulting of the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan earthquake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 16, 2006, Pages

  Tanaka, H ^a   Chen, W M ^b   Wang, C Y ^b   Ma, K F ^b   Urata, N ^a   Mori, J ^c   Ando, M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; FRICTION; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SHEAR STRESS;

FRICTIONAL HEAT; SEISMIC EFFICIENCY;

EARTHQUAKES;

BOREHOLE; CHI-CHI EARTHQUAKE 1999; HEAT FLOW; HEAT SOURCE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SHEAR STRESS; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 33751350063     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026673     Document Type: Article

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