Evaluating models of Coulomb stress transfer: Is variable fault geometry important?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 24, 2016, Pages 12,407-12,414

  Mildon, Zoe K ^a   Toda, Shinji ^b   Faure Walker, Joanna P ^a   Roberts, Gerald P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coulomb stress transfer; normal faults; variable fault geometry

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; FAULT SLIPS; GEOMETRY; GEOPHYSICS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

COULOMB STRESS TRANSFERS; EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCES; FAULT GEOMETRY; L'AQUILA EARTHQUAKES; NORMAL FAULTS; NOVEL METHODOLOGY; RECTANGULAR PATCH; VARIABLE GEOMETRY;

FAULTING;

COULOMB CRITERION; DIP; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT GEOMETRY; NORMAL FAULT; STRESS CHANGE; STRIKE (GEOLOGY);

ABRUZZI; APENNINES; ITALY; L'AQUILA;

AQUILA;

EID: 85007324365     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL071128     Document Type: Article

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