A slower fault may produce a smaller preseismic moment rate: Non-1/t f acceleration of moment rate during nucleation and dependency on the background slip rate

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 4850-4854

  Noda, Hiroyuki ^a   Nakatani, Masao ^b   Hori, Takane ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

dimensional analysis; earthquakes; nucleation; numerical simulation; preseismic moment release; rate and state friction

Indexed keywords

DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; INTERPLATE EARTHQUAKES; INTRAPLATE EARTHQUAKES; LARGE EARTHQUAKES; PRESEISMIC MOMENT RELEASE; RATE-AND-STATE FRICTIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; TIME TO FAILURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAULTING; FRICTION; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; NUCLEATION; NUMERICAL MODELS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACCELERATION; AMPLITUDE; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; FAULT; FRICTION; NUCLEATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMICITY; SLIP RATE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84884480961     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50962     Document Type: Article

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