Remote triggering of non-volcanic tremor around Taiwan

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 301-324

  Chao, Kevin ^a   Peng, Zhigang ^a   Wu, Chunquan ^a   Tang, Chi Chia ^a,b,c   Lin, Cheng Horng ^c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dynamics and mechanics of faulting; Earthquake interaction, forecasting, and prediction; Rheology and friction of fault zones

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; BROAD BANDS; CENTRAL RANGES; COULOMB FAILURE; DEPTH RANGE; DETACHMENT FAULT; EPICENTRAL DISTANCES; FREQUENCY CONTENTS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INCIDENCE ANGLES; LOVE-WAVE; LOWER CRUST; NON-VOLCANIC TREMORS; NORMAL INCIDENCE; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SEISMIC ENERGY; SEISMIC STATION; TELESEISMIC; TELESEISMIC EARTHQUAKES; TELESEISMIC EVENTS; TRIGGERING THRESHOLD;

EARTHQUAKES; RAYLEIGH WAVES; VOLCANOES;

SURFACE WAVES;

CORRELATION; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT ZONE; FAULTING; FRICTION; LOVE WAVE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; RHEOLOGY; SURFACE WAVE; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

TAIWAN;

EID: 84155167474     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05261.x     Document Type: Article

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