Block modeling with connected fault-network geometries and a linear elastic coupling estimator in spherical coordinates

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3124-3139

  Meade, Brendan J ^a   Loveless, John P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK MOTION; BLOCK THEORY; CARTESIAN COORDINATE SYSTEM; COMPLEX FAULT SYSTEM; ELASTIC COUPLING; ELASTIC HALF SPACE; FAULT SLIP; FAULT SYSTEM; FAULT-SLIP RATES; GEODETIC OBSERVATION; GEOLOGIC FAULTS; INELASTIC STRAIN; LINEAR ELASTIC; LINEAR ESTIMATORS; MODEL GEOMETRY; NETWORK GEOMETRY; NONLINEAR PERTURBATIONS; PARAMETER SENSITIVITIES; PLATE BOUNDARIES; SLIP RATES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPHERICAL COORDINATES; SURFACE VELOCITY; VARIABLE COUPLING; VELOCITY FIELD;

ELASTIC DEFORMATION; GEOMETRY; ROCK MECHANICS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

STRAIN RATE;

ALGORITHM; COORDINATE; COUPLING; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; ELASTICITY; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT SLIP; KINEMATICS; LINEARITY; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SLIP RATE; STRAIN PARTITIONING; STRAIN RATE;

EID: 70450218087     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090088     Document Type: Article

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