Deep-seated downslope slip during strong seismic shaking

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Sleep, Norman H ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; FRICTION; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TRIBOLOGY;

ANGLE OF REPOSE; CALIFORNIA; CLASSICAL APPROACH; COEFFICIENT OF FRICTIONS; COULOMB FAILURE CRITERIA; COULOMB STRESS; DOWNSLOPE; DYNAMIC ACCELERATION; DYNAMIC STRESS; FREE SURFACES; G ACCELERATION; GRAVITATIONAL STRESS; HILLSLOPES; NEAR-FIELD; NET EFFECT; OSCILLATING DYNAMICS; PARTICLE VELOCITIES; RATE AND STATE FRICTION; S-WAVES; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMIC SHAKING; SHALLOW DEPTHS; SHEAR TRACTION; STEEP SLOPE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; VELOCITY PULSE; WAVE NUMBERS;

ACCELERATION;

ACCELERATION; EARTHQUAKE; HILLSLOPE; LANDSLIDE; REGOLITH; S-WAVE; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMOLOGY; SLIP; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; STRONG MOTION;

CALIFORNIA; SAN GABRIEL MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 82955173734     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GC003838     Document Type: Article

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