Expansion of aftershock areas caused by propagating post-seismic sliding

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 797-808

  Kato, Naoyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aftershocks; Creep; Earthquake source mechanism; Fault slip; Seismicity

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; FAULT SLIP; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMICITY;

EID: 33846672975     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03255.x     Document Type: Article

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