Published March 2006
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Journal Article
Laboratory Earthquakes
- Creators
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Rosakis, Ares J.
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Kanamori, Hiroo
- Xia, Kaiwen
Abstract
We report on the experimental observation of the phenomenon of, spontaneously nucleated, supershear rupture and on the visualization of the mechanism of subRayleigh to supershear rupture transition in frictionally-held interfaces. The laboratory experiments mimic natural earthquakes. The results suggest that under certain conditions supershear rupture propagation can be facilitated during large earthquakes.
Additional Information
© 2006 Springer. Received 1 March 2005; accepted 1 December 2005. Authors appreciate fruitful discussions with T. Heaton and G. Ravichandran from Caltech and J. R. Rice from Harvard. This study is supported by NSF grant EAR-0207873 and Naval Research grant N00014-03-1-0435 (Yapa D. S. Rajapakse program monitor).Additional details
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- 24186
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20110623-134147181
- EAR-0207873
- NSF
- N00014-03-1-0435
- Office of Naval Research (ONR)
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- Caltech groups
- GALCIT, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences