Frictional and transport properties of the Chelungpu fault from shallow borehole data and their correlation with seismic behavior during the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Tanikawa, Wataru ^a   Shimamoto, Toshihiko ^b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE; CHI-CHI EARTHQUAKE 1999; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; FLUID FLOW; FRICTION; HIGH PRESSURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMICITY; SLIP;

ASIA; CHELUNGPU FAULT ZONE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 63049098820     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB005750     Document Type: Article

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