Twenty thousand aftershocks of a very small (M 2) earthquake and their relation to the mainshock rupture and geological structures

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2399-2407

  Naoi, Makoto ^a   Nakatani, Masao ^a   Yabe, Yasuo ^b   Kwiatek, Grzegorz ^c   Igarashi, Toshihiro ^a   Plenkers, Katrin ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN GOLD MINE; AFTERSHOCK DISTRIBUTIONS; ARRIVAL TIME; CENTROID MOMENT TENSORS; COMPRESSION STRESS; CORNER FREQUENCY; COULOMB FAILURE CRITERIA; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; HOST ROCKS; INTACT ROCKS; MAINSHOCK; MATERIAL BOUNDARIES; MOHR-COULOMB; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; PLANAR CLUSTERS; RUPTURE AREAS; RUPTURE SURFACE; SPATIAL CLUSTERING; SPATIAL EXTENT;

LEVEES;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

AFTERSHOCK; ARRIVAL TIME; CENTROID MOMENT TENSOR; COULOMB CRITERION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; MOHR THEORY; STRESS FIELD; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 80053188458     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100346     Document Type: Article

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