Intraplate earthquakes, regional stress and fault mechanics in the central and eastern U.S. and Southeastern Canada

Tectonophysics

Volumn 581, Issue , 2012, Pages 182-192

  Hurd, Owen ^a   Zoback, Mark D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Central and eastern United States; Crustal stress; Fault mechanics; Focal mechanisms; Intraplate seismicity

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE CRUST; CENTRAL AND EASTERN UNITED STATES; COEFFICIENTS OF FRICTION; CRUSTAL STRESS; DATA SETS; FAULT PLANES; FOCAL MECHANISM; FOCAL PLANE; HIGH QUALITY; HORIZONTAL STRESS; INTRAPLATE EARTHQUAKES; INTRAPLATE SEISMICITY; LOCAL STRESS; MOHR COULOMB CRITERION; SHEAR FAILURE; SIMPSON; SMALL VARIATIONS; STRESS FIELD; STRESS INVERSION; STRESS MAGNITUDE; STRESS ORIENTATIONS; STRIKE SLIP FAULTING; VERTICAL STRESS;

EARTHQUAKES; FOCUSING; FRICTION; OPTIMIZATION; STRESSES;

FAULT SLIPS;

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; COMPRESSION; COULOMB CRITERION; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULT PLANE; FAULTING; FOCAL MECHANISM; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; MOHR THEORY; PARAMETERIZATION; SEISMICITY; STRESS FIELD; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

CANADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870427112     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.04.002     Document Type: Article

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