Slip acceleration generates seismic tremor like signals in friction experiments

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Zigone, Dimitri ^a   Voisin, Christophe ^a,b   Larose, Eric ^a   Renard, Franois ^a,c   Campillo, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b Centre de Recherches Géophysiques CNRSL   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRICTION; SEEBECK EFFECT; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; TIDES; TRIBOLOGY;

FRICTIONAL SLIP; OCEAN TIDES; SEISMIC TREMOR; SLOW SLIP EVENTS; SYSTEMATIC CORRELATION; TELESEISMIC EARTHQUAKES;

EXPERIMENTS;

ACCELERATION; EARTH TIDE; OCEAN TIDE; SEISMIC MOMENT; SHEAR STRESS; SLIP RATE; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

EID: 78751550170     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045603     Document Type: Article

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