Energy taken up by co-seismic chemical reactions during a large earthquake: An example from the 1999 Taiwan Chi-Chi earthquak

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Hamada, Yohei ^a   Hirono, Tetsuro ^a   Tanikawa, Wataru ^b   Soh, Wonn ^b   Song, Sheng Rong ^c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL KINETICS; CHICHI EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE ENERGY BUDGET; EARTHQUAKE SLIP; FAULT ZONE; FEEDBACK EFFECTS; FRICTIONAL HEAT; INITIAL CONCENTRATION; REACTIVE MATERIALS; TEMPERATURE RISE;

EARTHQUAKES; ENERGY CONSERVATION; FRICTION; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THERMAL EFFECTS;

GRAFTING (CHEMICAL);

CHI-CHI EARTHQUAKE 1999; COSEISMIC PROCESS; ENERGY BUDGET; ENERGY CONSERVATION; FAULT ZONE; NUMERICAL MODEL; REACTION KINETICS; SLIP;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 63249116632     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036772     Document Type: Article

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