Microfractures within the fault damage zone record the history of fault activity

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2023-2027

  Mizoguchi, Kazuo ^a   Ueta, Keiichi ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

Author keywords

active fault; fault damage zone; history of fault activity; microfracture density

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; EARTHQUAKE EVENTS; FAULT ACTIVITY; FAULT DAMAGE ZONE; HEALING TEMPERATURE; MICRO-FRACTURE; OFF-FAULT DAMAGE; SEDIMENTARY COVERS;

EARTHQUAKES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

FAULTING;

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FAULT ZONE; FRACTURE; PALEOSEISMICITY; PREDICTION; QUATERNARY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 84879895711     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50469     Document Type: Article

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