Dependency of supershear transition and ground motion on the autocorrelation of initial stress

Tectonophysics

Volumn 493, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 222-235

  Schmedes, Jan ^a   Archuleta, Ralph J ^a   Lavallée, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic rupture; Heterogeneous fault properties; Isochrone analysis; Strong ground motion; Supershear propagation; Transition to supershear propagation

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE SPECTRA; CRITICAL VALUE; DIMENSIONLESS PARAMETERS; ELASTIC HALF SPACE; FINITE PROBABILITIES; FRICTIONAL PROPERTIES; GRID-SPACINGS; GROUND MOTIONS; HETEROGENEOUS FAULT PROPERTIES; INITIAL SHEAR STRESS; INITIAL STRESS; ISOCHRONES; LENGTH SCALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POWER LAW; RADIATED WAVES; RANDOM FIELDS; RUPTURE SPEED; RUPTURE VELOCITIES; S-FACTOR; SELF-SIMILAR; SHEAR WAVE SPEED; SMOOTH MODELS; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SPECTRAL DECAY; STRESS DROP; STRESS FIELD; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; STRONG GROUND MOTION; SUBSHEAR SPEED; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS; SUPERSHEAR; SUPERSHEAR RUPTURE; WAVE NUMBERS;

AUTOCORRELATION; DROPS; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; STRESSES;

SPEED;

AMPLITUDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; GROUND MOTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POWER LAW; SHEAR ZONE; STRESS FIELD; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; THEORETICAL STUDY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE FIELD; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 78049281843     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.05.013     Document Type: Article

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