Temperature variations of constitutive parameters can significantly affect the fault dynamics

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 306, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 272-278

  Bizzarri, Andrea ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Earthquake recurrence; Earthquake source dynamics; Frictional heating; Rheology of faults

Indexed keywords

ANALOG MODELS; CANONICAL FORMULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL SEISMOLOGY; CONSTANT PARAMETERS; CONSTITUTIVE PARAMETERS; DASHPOTS; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE DYNAMICS; FAULT DYNAMICS; FRICTIONAL HEATING; FRICTIONAL SLIDING; HIGH VELOCITY; INSTABILITY EVENTS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; RATE AND STATE FRICTION; RECURRENCE TIME; SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT; SLIDING VELOCITIES; STATE-DEPENDENT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TEMPERATURE VARIATION;

EARTHQUAKES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

FRICTION;

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; HEATING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; RHEOLOGY; SEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

EID: 79956312182     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.04.009     Document Type: Article

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