Seismic responses to fluid pressure perturbations in a slipping fault

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3197-3203

  Derode, Benoit ^a,b   Guglielmi, Yves ^c   De Barros, Louis ^b   Cappa, Frédéric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

fluid pressure; hydromechanical coupling; long period events; seismology; tremor like signal

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY BANDS; SEEBECK EFFECT;

CONSTANT AMPLITUDE; EFFECTIVE STRESS; FLUID PRESSURES; HYDROMECHANICAL COUPLING; LONG-PERIOD EVENTS; MICRO-EARTHQUAKES; NARROW FREQUENCY BAND; RESIDUAL PRESSURES;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; FLUID INJECTION; FLUID PRESSURE; FRICTION; SEISMIC RESPONSE;

EID: 84930476629     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063671     Document Type: Article

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