Horizontal surface velocity and strain patterns near thrust and normal faults during the earthquake cycle: The importance of viscoelastic relaxation in the lower crust and implications for interpreting geodetic data

Tectonics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 731-752

  Hampel, Andrea ^a   Hetzel, Ralf ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

active tectonics; earthquake cycle; intracontinental faults; numerical modeling

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEODESY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODELS; STRAIN RATE; TECTONICS; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOSITY;

ACTIVE TECTONICS; COSEISMIC DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE CYCLES; ELASTIC DISLOCATION MODELS; POSTSEISMIC DEFORMATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL EVOLUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL FINITE ELEMENT MODEL; VISCOELASTIC RELAXATION;

FAULTING;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION; DIP-SLIP FAULT; EARTHQUAKE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEODESY; GPS; LOWER CRUST; NORMAL FAULT; NUMERICAL MODEL; POSTSEISMIC PROCESS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; THRUST FAULT; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 85027927071     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: 19449194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014TC003605     Document Type: Article

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