Seismic characteristics of supershear and sub‐Rayleigh earthquakes: Implication from simple cases

Abstract Numerous investigations of supershear earthquakes make a conclusion that a supershear earthquake produces a seismic shock wave on the ground that may increase the resulting destruction. We investigate a supershear rupture promoted by the free surface and find out that although the seismic e...

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Published in:	Geophysical Research Letters
Main Authors:	Zhenguo Zhang, Jiankuan Xu, Hanqing Huang, Xiaofei Chen
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Wiley 2017-07-01
Subjects:	supershear earthquake dynamic rupture free surface
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL074158

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