Relationships between fault geometry, slip rate variability and earthquake recurrence in extensional settings

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 143-160

  Cowie, Patience A ^a   Roberts, Gerald P ^b   Bull, Jonathan M ^c   Visini, Francesco ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Continental tectonics: extensional; Dynamics and mechanics of faulting; Palaeoseismology

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; ADJACENT STRUCTURES; APENNINES; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; CONTINENTAL TECTONICS; EARTHQUAKE ACTIVITY; EARTHQUAKE FORECASTING; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE INTERVALS; ELASTIC INTERACTIONS; FAULT ARRAYS; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT-SLIP RATES; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FIRST ORDER; FITTING PARAMETERS; GEOMETRICAL CONTROL; NEW ZEALAND; NORMAL FAULTS; PALAEOSEISMOLOGY; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SITE TO SITES; SLIP RATES; STRESS LOADING; STRESS REDISTRIBUTION; STRUCTURAL GEOMETRY; TIME ORDERING; TIME VARYING; TIME-SCALES;

EARTHQUAKES; GEOMETRY; STATISTICAL METHODS; STRESS ANALYSIS; TECTONICS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

FAULT SLIPS;

ACTIVE FAULT; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT SLIP; FAULTING; NORMAL FAULT; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECURRENCE INTERVAL; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC HAZARD; SLIP RATE;

APENNINES; ITALY; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84858616133     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05378.x     Document Type: Article

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