Thermal constraints on the frictional conditions of the nucleation and rupture area of the 1992 Nicaragua tsunami earthquake

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 179, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1265-1278

  Heesemann, Martin ^a   Grevemeyer, Ingo ^b   Villinger, Heinrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heat flow; Heat generation and transport; Numerical solutions; Seismicity and tectonics; Subduction zone processes

Indexed keywords

ASPERITY; CARIBBEAN PLATE; COCOS PLATE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GENETIC ALGORITHM; HEAT FLOW; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; MODELING; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; SEAMOUNT; SEISMOTECTONICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TSUNAMI;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 70450194861     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04187.x     Document Type: Article

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