Statistics of earthquake stress drops on a heterogeneous fault in an elastic half-space

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1786-1800

  Bailey, I W ^a   Ben Zion, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDES; ELASTIC HALF SPACE; FAULT STRENGTH; FRICTIONAL PROPERTIES; GROUND MOTIONS; HOMOGENEOUS PROCESS; INITIAL STRESS; LARGE SYSTEM; LOW STRESS; SELF-ORGANIZED; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; STRESS DROP; STRESS FIELD; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

EARTHQUAKES; HYDROELASTICITY; STRESS CONCENTRATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DROPS;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROUND MOTION; MICROEARTHQUAKE; SEISMICITY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

EID: 69549114811     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080254     Document Type: Article

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