Modeling short- and long-term slow slip events in the seismic cycles of large subduction earthquakes

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Matsuzawa, Takanori ^a   Hirose, Hitoshi ^a   Shibazaki, Bunichiro ^b   Obara, Kazushige ^a,c  

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

^b BUILDING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; NUCLEATION; SEISMOLOGY; SLIP; STRESS FIELD; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC PLATE;

CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE; CHINA; JAPAN; NANKAI; PACIFIC OCEAN; TIANJIN;

EID: 78650031129     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JB007566     Document Type: Article

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