Spontaneous dynamic rupture propagation beyond fault discontinuities: Effect of thermal pressurization

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 53-63

  Urata, Yumi ^a   Kuge, Keiko ^a   Kase, Yuko ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT SYSTEM; HYDRAULIC DIFFUSIVITY; INITIAL STRESS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; ON DYNAMICS; RUPTURE PROPAGATION; SEISMIC WAVEFORMS; STEP-OVERS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; THERMAL PRESSURIZATION;

EARTHQUAKES; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

TECTONICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC WAVE; STRESS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84857150667     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120110089     Document Type: Article

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