Reproducing the supershear portion of the 2002 Denali earthquake rupture in laboratory

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 387, Issue , 2014, Pages 89-96

  Mello, M ^a   Bhat, H S ^b   Rosakis, A J ^c   Kanamori, H ^c  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic rupture; Laboratory earthquakes; Supershear earthquake; Trailing Rayleigh pulse

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; DYNAMIC RUPTURES; NEAR SOURCE GROUND MOTION; NEAR-FIELD GROUND MOTIONS; PARTICLE VELOCITIES; RAYLEIGH PULSE; SEISMIC GROUND MOTIONS; SUPERSHEAR EARTHQUAKES;

LABORATORIES; OPTICAL PUMPING;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT; GROUND MOTION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LABORATORY METHOD; RAYLEIGH WAVE;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84889607133     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.11.030     Document Type: Article

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