What Do Faults Feel? Observational Constraints on the Stresses Acting On Seismogenic Faults

Earthquakes: Radiated Energy and the Physics of Faulting

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 313-327

  Townend, John ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Energy dissipation; Faults (Geology); Seismic waves; Seismology

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISSIPATION; FRICTION; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BOREHOLE MEASUREMENTS; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; FRICTION COEFFICIENTS; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; PLATE BOUNDARIES; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMICALLY ACTIVE FAULTS; SEISMOGENIC FAULTS;

FAULT SLIPS;

EID: 84950992343     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/170GM31     Document Type: Chapter

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