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TECTONOPHYSICS—Volume 211—No. 1-4 Special Issue EARTHQUAKE SOURCE PHYSICS AND EARTHQUAKE PRECURSORS Papers from International Symposium on Earthquake Source Physics and Earthquake Precursors, Held in Tokyo, Japan, November 19-22, 1990 Edited by TAKESHI! MIKUMO Research Centre for Earthquake Prediction, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611, Japan KEIITI AKI Department of Geological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740, USA MITIYASU OHNAKA Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan LARRY J. RUFF Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA PAUL K.P. SPUDICH U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA IASPEI CONTENTS Preface Opening address K. Mogi (Chiba, Japan) Seismic Observation and Analysis Higher-order interrelations between seismogenic structures and earthquake processes K. Aki (Los Angeles, Calif. USA) The bright spot of an earthquake Y. Umeda (Kyoto, Japan) Influence of asperities along subduction interfaces on the stressing and seismicity of adjacent areas R. Dmowska and L.C. Lovison (Cambridge, Mass., USA) Waveform inversion for rupture process using a non-flat seafloor model: application to 1986 Andreanof Islands and 1985 Chile earthquakes S. Yoshida (Tokyo, Japan) Asperity distributions and large earthquake occurrence in subduction zones L.J. Ruff (Ann Arbor, Mich., USA) On relations between earthquake population and asperity population on a fault A.A. Gusev (Petropaviovsk-Kamchatsky, USSR) On the inference of absolute stress levels from seismic radiation P.K.P. Spudich (Menlo Park, Calif., USA) Strain drop and apparent strain for large earthquakes M. Kikuchi (Yokohama, Japan) Theoretical and Numerical Modelling Earthquake nucleation on faults with rate- and state-dependent strength J.H. Dieterich (Menlo Park, Calif., USA) Slip-dependent friction law and nucleation processes in earthquake rupture M. Matsu’ura, H. Kataoka and B. Shibazaki (Tokyo, Japan) Earthquake source nucleation: a physical model for short-term precursors M. Ohnaka (Tokyo, Japan) Precursory surface deformation expected from a strike-slip fault model into which rheological properties of the lithosphere are incorporated T. Yamashita and M. Ohnaka (Tokyo, Japan) Dynamic fault rupture and stress recovery processes in continental crust under depth-dependent shear strength and frictional parameters T. Mikumo (Kyoto, Japan) Numerical simulation of three-dimensional faulting processes with heterogeneous rate- and state-dependent friction T. Miyatake (Tokyo, Japan) Temporal variations in seismic event rate and b-values from stress corrosion constitutive laws 1.G. Main (Edinburgh, UK), P.G. Meredith and P.R. Sammmonds (London, UK) Experimental and Geological Studies Fracture nucleation process in intact rocks H. Yukutake (Osaka, Japan) Confirmation of two types of fracture in granite deformed at temperatures to 300°C M. Shimada (Takatsuki, Japan) Strain-rate effect on frictional strength and the slip nucleation process N. Kato, K. Yamamoto, H. Yamamoto and T. Hirasawa (Sendai, Japan) Implications of fault-valve behaviour for rupture nucleation and recurrence R.H. Sibson (Dunedin, New Zealand) The change in orientation of subsidiary shears near faults containing pore fluid under high pressure J. Byerlee (Menlo Park, Calif., USA) Relationships between sliding behavior and internal geometry of laboratory fault zones and some creeping and locked strike-slip faults of California D.E. Moore and J. Byerlee (Menlo Park, Calif., USA) About the potential of wells to reflect stress variations within inhomogeneous crust H.-J. Kiimpel (Kiel, FRG) Transient electrical activity accompanying rock under indentation loading Y. Enomoto (Ibaraki, Japan) and H. Hashimoto (Tokyo, Japan)