Episodic tremors and slip in Cascadia in the framework of the Frenkel-Kontorova model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Gershenzon, Naum I ^a   Bambakidis, Gust ^a   Hauser, Ernest ^a   Ghosh, Abhijit ^b   Creager, Kenneth C ^b  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS);

CASCADIA; CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE; DISLOCATION DYNAMICS; FAULT DYNAMICS; FRENKEL-KONTOROVA MODELS; FUNDAMENTAL FEATURES; MIGRATION PATTERNS; MOTION DIRECTION; RUPTURE TIME; SCALING RELATIONS; SEISMIC MOMENT; SLIP PULSE;

EARTHQUAKES;

DISLOCATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EPISODIC EVENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERIODICITY; PLATE BOUNDARY; SCALE EFFECT; SLIP; SUBDUCTION ZONE; VELOCITY;

EID: 78751542560     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045225     Document Type: Article

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