Weak ductile shear zone beneath a major strike-slip fault: Inferences from earthquake cycle model constrained by geodetic observations of the western North Anatolian Fault Zone

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 3678-3699

  Yamasaki, Tadashi ^a   Wright, Tim J ^a   Houseman, Gregory A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ductile shear zone; Earthquake cycle; Maxwell relaxation time; North Anatolian Fault Zone; Postseismic and interseismic deformation; Strike slip fault

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE; FAULT ZONE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEODESY; GPS; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; POSTSEISMIC PROCESS; SEISMICITY; SHEAR ZONE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

ANATOLIA; TURKEY;

EID: 84901049777     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JB010347     Document Type: Article

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