A mechanism for preseismic steady rupture fronts observed in laboratory experiments

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 2011, Pages

  Kaneko, Y ^a   Ampuero, J P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; EXPERIMENTS; FRICTION; SPEED; STRESS CONCENTRATION; TRIBOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCES; EVOLUTION LAW; FRICTION LAWS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-SPEED; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MODEL PARAMETERS; NEAR-FIELD; PARAMETER SPACES; PROPAGATION SPEED; QUASI-STATIC; SPACE DIMENSIONS; STRESS CONDITION;

LABORATORIES;

COALESCENCE; CREEP; FRICTION; INSTABILITY; LABORATORY METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RUPTURE; S-WAVE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 81155138233     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049953     Document Type: Article

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