Stress drop during earthquakes: Effect of fault roughness scaling

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2369-2387

  Candela, Thibault ^a   Renard, François ^a   Bouchon, Michel ^a   Schmittbuhl, Jean ^b   Brodsky, Emily E ^c  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE GRENOBLE   (France)

^b France and Karlsruher Institut für Technologie   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE STRESS; CASCADE MODEL; CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; CONTROLLING PARAMETERS; DOMINANT MODE; FAULT PLANES; FAULT SURFACES; FRENCH ALPS; GEOLOGICAL SETTING; HIGH RESOLUTION; LENGTH SCALE; ROCK FRAGMENTATION; ROUGHNESS EXPONENT; ROUGHNESS SCALING; SCALING PROPERTIES; SELF-AFFINE; SOURCE DIMENSIONS; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SPATIAL DERIVATIVES; SPATIAL FLUCTUATION; STATIC STRESS; STRESS DROP;

DEFORMATION; DROPS; EARTHQUAKES; ROCK BURSTS; SHEAR STRENGTH; TOPOGRAPHY;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CORRELATION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT PLANE; FAULT SLIP; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; SHEAR STRENGTH; STRESS FIELD; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ALPS; FRANCE; NEVADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80053212842     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100298     Document Type: Article

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