Shallow slip deficit due to large strike-slip earthquakes in dynamic rupture simulations with elasto-plastic off-fault response

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 186, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1389-1403

  Kaneko, Y ^a   Fialko, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamics and mechanics of faulting; Earthquake dynamics; Earthquake source observations; Rheology and friction of fault zones; Transform faults

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE CRUST; COSEISMIC SLIPS; EARTH SURFACE; EARTHQUAKE DYNAMICS; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE OBSERVATIONS; ELASTIC MODELS; ELASTO-PLASTIC; FAULT FRICTION; GEODETIC DATA; GEODETIC OBSERVATION; INELASTIC DEFORMATION; INTERSEISMIC CREEP; KINEMATIC INVERSION; MAXIMUM SLIP; POTENTIAL MECHANISM; RATE AND STATE FRICTION; ROCK STRENGTH; RUPTURE MODELS; SEISMIC EVENT; SHALLOW CRUST; SHALLOW DEPTHS; SLIP DISTRIBUTION; STRIKE-SLIP EARTHQUAKES; TRANSFORM FAULTS; UPPER CRUST;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FRICTION; GEODESY; KINEMATICS; SEISMOLOGY; STRENGTHENING (METAL); TECTONICS; TRIBOLOGY;

CREEP;

CREEP; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FAULTING; GEODETIC DATUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; RHEOLOGY; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; UPPER CRUST;

EID: 80051799119     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05117.x     Document Type: Article

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