Slip-length scaling in large earthquakes: The role of deep-penetrating slip below the seismogenic layer

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1633-1641

  Shaw, Bruce E ^a   Wesnousky, Steven G ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROPS;

COSEISMIC SLIPS; LENGTH SCALING; RUPTURE LENGTH;

SEISMOLOGY;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; RUPTURE; SLIP RATE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 46149093864     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120070191     Document Type: Article

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