Stable creeping fault segments can become destructive as a result of dynamic weakening

Nature

Volumn 493, Issue 7433, 2013, Pages 518-521

  Noda, Hiroyuki ^a   Lapusta, Nadia ^b,c  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHI-CHI EARTHQUAKE 1999; COSEISMIC PROCESS; CREEP; CRUST; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FRICTION; GROUND MOTION; MOMENT TENSOR; SEISMIC WAVE; STICK-SLIP; TECTONIC PLATE; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

ARTICLE; EARTHQUAKE; FRICTION; HAZARD; HEATING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; SHEAR HEATING;

EID: 84872918637     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11703     Document Type: Article

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