Constraining fault constitutive behavior with slip and stress heterogeneity

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Aagaard, B T ^a   Heaton, T H ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; STRESS FIELD; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

EID: 45149118464     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JB004793     Document Type: Article

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