Determination of total strain from faulting using slip measurements

Determination of total strain from faulting using slip measurements

In the past 20 years it has become commonplace in seismology to sum seismic moments for large earthquakes to determine the contemporary fault slip rate or regional strain rate produced by earthquakes. It is shown that faults obey general scaling laws in their size frequency distribution and in the r...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nature (London) 1990-08, Vol.346 (6287), p.837-839
Hauptverfasser: Scholz, C. H, Cowie, Patience A
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Datasets
Deformation
Earth sciences
Earth, ocean, space
Earthquakes
Exact sciences and technology
Fault lines
Frequency distribution
Geological data
Geological faults
Geological time
Geology
Growth models
Mathematical analysis
Measurement methods
Plate tectonics
Scaling
Scaling laws
Seismic activity
Seismology
Shear strain
Slip
Strain rate
Tectonics. Structural geology. Plate tectonics
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Zusammenfassung:In the past 20 years it has become commonplace in seismology to sum seismic moments for large earthquakes to determine the contemporary fault slip rate or regional strain rate produced by earthquakes. It is shown that faults obey general scaling laws in their size frequency distribution and in the relation between displacenment and fault length.
ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/346837a0