The Effects of Fault Roughness on the Earthquake Nucleation Process
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DOI: 10.1002/2017jb014746
Abstract: We study numerically the effects of fault roughness on the nucleation process during earthquake sequences. The faults are governed by a rate and state friction law. The roughness introduces local barriers that complicate the nucleation… read more here.
Keywords: nucleation; length; nucleation process; fault roughness ... See more keywords