Pulse-like dynamic earthquake rupture propagation under rate-, state- and temperature-dependent friction

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 18, 2010, Pages

  Bizzarri, Andrea ^a  

^a Ist Naz di Geofis e Volcanologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; FRICTION; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

CRACK-LIKE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; FRICTIONAL HEAT; MATERIAL PROPERTY; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PULSE-LIKE; SEISMIC DATAS; SELF-HEALING; SLIP DURATION; SLIP PULSE; STRAIN LOCALIZATIONS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TEMPERATURE EVOLUTION;

CRACKS;

CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKING; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRICTION; HETEROGENEITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC DATA; SLIP RATE; STRAIN ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 77957552114     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044541     Document Type: Article

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