Complex characteristics of slow slip events in subduction zones reproduced in multi-cycle simulations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 20, 2012, Pages

  Colella, Harmony V ^a,b   Dieterich, James H ^a   Richards Dinger, Keith ^a   Rubin, Allan M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION;

COMPLEX CHARACTERISTICS; COMPLEX PATTERN; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; HIGH RESOLUTION; MODELING TECHNIQUE; MULTI-CYCLE; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SLOW SLIP EVENTS; SPATIAL-TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; STATE-DEPENDENT; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

COALESCENCE;

EID: 84868335549     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053276     Document Type: Article

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