Interplay of seismic and aseismic deformations during earthquake swarms: An experimental approach

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 331-332, Issue , 2012, Pages 215-223

  Lengline O ^a,e   Elkhoury, J E ^b   Daniel, G ^c   Schmittbuhl, J ^a   Toussaint, R ^a,e   Ampuero, J P ^b   Bouchon, M ^d  

^a UMR 7063   (France)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Magnitude   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Aseismic slip; Earthquake swarms

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SENSORS; ASEISMIC SLIP; CREEP DEFORMATIONS; DEFORMATION PROCESS; DEFORMATION RATES; EARTHQUAKE SWARMS; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEM; FAULT PLANES; HETEROGENEOUS INTERFACES; INTERFACIAL CRACKS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MECHANICAL RESPONSE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RATE AND STATE FRICTION; SEISMIC ACTIVITY; SLOW DEFORMATION; SPATIAL PROXIMITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TRANSIENT LOAD;

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACTIVATION ENERGY; EARTHQUAKES; FAULTING;

CREEP;

ACOUSTIC EMISSION; ACTIVATION ENERGY; ASPERITY; CRACK; CREEP; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FAULT PLANE; RHEOLOGY; SEISMICITY; SLIP;

EID: 84859628940     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.03.022     Document Type: Article

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