Long-term slow slip events are not necessarily caused by high pore fluid pressure at the plate interface: An implication from two-dimensional model calculations

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 331-335

  Mitsui, Yuta ^a   Hirahara, Kazuro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Hydrogeophysics; Numerical approximations and analysis; Rheology and friction of fault zones; Seismic cycle; Subduction zone processes

Indexed keywords

FAULT SLIP; FAULT ZONE; FRICTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PORE PRESSURE; RHEOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

EID: 45249099550     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03832.x     Document Type: Article

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