منابع مشابه
Stress buildup in the Himalaya
[1] The seismic cycle on a major fault involves long periods of elastic strain and stress accumulation, driven by aseismic ductile deformation at depth, ultimately released by sudden fault slip events. Coseismic slip distributions are generally heterogeneous with most of the energy being released in the rupture of asperities. Since, on the long term, the fault’s walls generally do not accumulat...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0148-0227
DOI: 10.1029/2003jb002911