Large-scale numerical simulations of earthquake fault systems: Illuminating the role of dilatational gravity in earthquake nucleation

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1644-1652

  Hayes, T J ^a   Tiampo, K F ^b   Rundle, J B ^c  

^a TD Newcrest   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake forecasting; Earthquake simulations; Gravity; Numerical modelling

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; EARTHQUAKES; GRAVITATION; NUMERICAL MODELS; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRESS;

EARTHQUAKE CYCLES; EARTHQUAKE FORECASTING; EARTHQUAKE NUCLEATION; EARTHQUAKE SIMULATION; FAULT ORIENTATIONS; STEADY-STATE REGIME; STRESS AND STRAIN; TECTONIC LOADING;

FAULTING;

EID: 77955492391     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1520     Document Type: Conference Paper

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