New insights into the application of the Coulomb model in real-time

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 583-599

  Catalli, Flaminia ^a,b   Chan, Chung Han ^a,c  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Earthquake interaction, forecasting, and prediction

Indexed keywords

COULOMB MODEL; DEPTH RANGE; FORECASTING TOOLS; MAXIMUM STRESS; PHYSICS-BASED; REAL-TIME FORECASTING; STRESS CHANGES;

FORECASTING;

COULOMB CRITERION; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; NORMAL FAULT; NUMERICAL MODEL; REAL TIME; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; THRUST FAULT;

EID: 84855418127     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05276.x     Document Type: Article

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