Spatial variation of the stress field along the fault rupture zone of the 1999 Izmit earthquake

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 237-256

  Pinar, A ^a   Ucer S B ^c   Honkura, Y ^b   Sezgin, N ^a   Ito, A ^d   Baris S ^e   Kalafat, D ^c   Matsushima, M ^b   Horiuchi, S ^f  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aftershocks; Focal mechanism; Izmit earthquake; Stress tensor

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT SLIP; FOCAL MECHANISM; FRACTURE ZONE; KOCAELI EARTHQUAKE 1999; MOMENT TENSOR; SPATIAL VARIATION; STRESS FIELD;

EID: 77950797956     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2009.12.001     Document Type: Article

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