Rupture directivity of microearthquakes on the San Andreas Fault from spectral ratio inversion

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 852-866

  Wang, Enning ^a   Rubin, Allan M ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake dynamics; Earthquake source observations; Rheology and friction of fault zones

Indexed keywords

BI-MATERIAL INTERFACES; COMPLIANT MATERIALS; DIRECTION OF MOTION; EARTHQUAKE DYNAMICS; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE OBSERVATIONS; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; INVERSION RESULTS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MICRO-EARTHQUAKES; MOVING POINT SOURCE; NATURAL EARTHQUAKE; PROPAGATION SPEED; PROPAGATION VELOCITIES; RUPTURE DIRECTIVITY; RUPTURE LENGTH; RUPTURE PROPAGATION; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SPECTRAL RATIOS; THEORETICAL PREDICTION;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; ELASTICITY;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; FRICTION; MICROEARTHQUAKE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RHEOLOGY; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMIC SOURCE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79960380977     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05087.x     Document Type: Article

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