Splay fault triggering by great subduction earthquakes inferred from finite element models

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 385-391

  Li, Shaoyang ^a   Moreno, Marcos ^a   Rosenau, Matthias ^a   Melnick, Daniel ^b   Oncken, Onno ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

earthquake deformation; faulting behavior; FEM models; splay faults; subduction zone earthquakes; tsunami hazards

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRICTION; HAZARDS; TSUNAMIS;

FEM MODELS; FRICTIONAL PROPERTIES; FRICTIONAL STRENGTH; MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKES; NORMAL DISPLACEMENT; SUBDUCTION EARTHQUAKES; SUBDUCTION-ZONE EARTHQUAKES; TSUNAMI HAZARDS;

FAULTING;

DEFORMATION; DIP; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRICTION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THRUST; TSUNAMI;

EID: 84893172306     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058598     Document Type: Article

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