Onset of aseismic creep on major strike-slip faults

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1115-1118

  Çakir, Ziyadin ^a,b   Ergintav, Semih ^b   Özener, Haluk ^c   Dogan, Uǧur ^d   Akoglu, Ahmet M ^e   Meghraoui, Mustapha ^f   Reilinger, Robert ^g  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MATERIALS INSTITUTE   (Turkey)

^c BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^f UMR 7063   (France)

^g MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREEP BEHAVIORS; CYCLE MODEL; ISTANBUL; IZMIT EARTHQUAKES; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SPACEBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; SUPERSHEAR RUPTURE;

CREEP; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EARTHQUAKES;

CREEP; DISPLACEMENT; FAULT SLIP; FAULT ZONE; KOCAELI EARTHQUAKE 1999; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

IZMIT; KOCAELI [TURKEY]; TURKEY;

EID: 84872140077     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33522.1     Document Type: Article

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