Effect of a compliant fault zone on the inferred earthquake slip distribution

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Barbot, Sylvain ^a   Fialko, Yuri ^a   Sandwell, Dave ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DISLOCATION; ELASTICITY; FAULT ZONE; FOURIER TRANSFORM; MODELING;

EID: 50649096571     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JB005256     Document Type: Article

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