A Viscoelastic earthquake simulator with application to the San Francisco Bay region

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1760-1785

  Pollitz, Fred F ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASCADE MODEL; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; CONTROLLING PARAMETERS; COULOMB FAILURE STRESS; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EARTHQUAKE SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE SIMULATOR; ELASTIC DISLOCATION THEORY; FAULT NETWORKS; FAULT SYSTEM; LOWER CRUST; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SIMPLE MODEL; STATIC STRESS; STATISTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; STATISTICAL PATTERN; TECTONIC LOADING; TIME PERIODS; VISCOELASTIC RELAXATION;

EARTHQUAKES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRESS ANALYSIS; TECTONICS;

SIMULATORS;

DIP-SLIP FAULT; DISLOCATION; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; ESTIMATION METHOD; LOWER CRUST; LOWER MANTLE; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMICITY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; VISCOELASTICITY;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69549084948     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080253     Document Type: Article

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