Foreshocks during the nucleation of stick-slip instability

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2982-2997

  McLaskey, Gregory C ^a   Kilgore, Brian D ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

conditionally stable; foreshock; laboratory earthquake; nucleation

Indexed keywords

FAULT SLIP; FORESHOCK; INSTABILITY; RUPTURE; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMICITY; SHEAR STRESS; STICK-SLIP; STRESS CHANGE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

EID: 84880749337     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrb.50232     Document Type: Article

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