Photo-acoustic study of subshear and supershear ruptures in the laboratory

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 308, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 424-432

  Schubnel, Alexandre ^a   Nielsen, Stefan ^b   Taddeucci, Jacopo ^b   Vinciguerra, Sergio ^b   Rao, Sandro ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acoustic emission; Radiation pattern; Seismic source; Slip velocity functions; Sub Rayleigh rupture; Supershear rupture

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER SIGNALS; DOUBLE PULSE; HIGH FREQUENCY; HIGH SPEED IMAGING; MICRO-EARTHQUAKES; RAYLEIGH WAVE VELOCITY; RUPTURE VELOCITIES; SEISMIC SOURCE; SINGLE PULSE; SLIP VELOCITY; SUB-RAYLEIGH RUPTURE; SUPERSHEAR RUPTURE; SUPERSHEAR VELOCITIES; WAVE AMPLITUDES; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFIELDS;

ACCELEROMETERS; VELOCITY; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFRONTS;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT; MICROEARTHQUAKE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC SOURCE; SHEAR ZONE; SLIP; WAVE FIELD; WAVE VELOCITY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 79960565424     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.06.013     Document Type: Article

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