Slip-length scaling law for strike-slip multiple segment earthquakes based on dynamic rupture simulations

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 473-481

  Kase, Yuko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE SIZE; FAULT INTERACTIONS; HALF-SPACE; LENGTH SCALING; NUMERICAL RESULTS; ON DYNAMICS; RUPTURE PROCESS; SINGLE SEGMENTS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

EARTHQUAKES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

SCALING LAWS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; SEISMICITY; SLIP RATE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING;

EID: 77950352357     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090090     Document Type: Article

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