Supershear transition due to a free surface in 3-D simulations of spontaneous dynamic rupture on vertical strike-slip faults

Tectonophysics

Volumn 493, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 272-284

  Kaneko, Y ^a   Lapusta, N ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake rupture dynamics; Earthquake source physics; Supershear transition

Indexed keywords

3D SIMULATIONS; DIFFRACTED WAVES; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE DYNAMICS; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; FREE SURFACES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PHASE CONVERSION; PRE-STRESS; PRESTRESS LEVELS; SEISMIC OBSERVATION; SIGNIFICANT SURFACES; STRIKE-SLIP EARTHQUAKES; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUPERSHEAR; SUPERSHEAR RUPTURE; SV-WAVE;

EARTHQUAKES; SURFACES; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

DYNAMICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT PROPAGATION; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SHEAR STRESS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

EID: 78049299041     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.06.015     Document Type: Article

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