Scaling relationships of source parameters for slow slip events

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 352-360

  Gao, Haiying ^a   Schmidt, David A ^a   Weldon, Ray J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE; INVERSE RELATIONSHIP; LOG-LOG SPACE; LOW STRESS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; PULSE-LIKE; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; RISETIMES; RUPTURE VELOCITIES; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS; SEISMIC MOMENT; SLOW SLIP EVENTS; SOURCE PARAMETERS; STATIC STRESS;

DROPS; EARTHQUAKES;

FAULT SLIPS;

DETECTION METHOD; DISLOCATION; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; SLIP RATE; SOURCE PARAMETERS; STRESS CHANGE; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84857166462     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120110096     Document Type: Article

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