%0 Journal Article %1 bouchon_etal:2001 %A Bouchon, Michel %A Bouin, Marie-Paule %A Karabulut, Hayrullah %A Toksöz, M. Nafi %A Dietrich, Michel %A Rosakis, Ares J. %D 2001 %J Geophysical Research Letters %K geophysics seismology %N 14 %P 2723--2726 %R 10.1029/2001GL013112 %T How fast is rupture during an earthquake? New insights from the 1999 Turkey earthquakes %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2001GL013112 %V 28 %X We report that during the two devastating 1999 earthquakes in Turkey, rupture propagated over a large part of the nearly 200 km long fault zone at supershear speed approaching 5 km/s. We present observations and modeling which confirm the original inference of supershear rupture during the Izmit earthquake and we show that supershear rupture also occurred during the Düzce earthquake. We show that the rupture velocity measured - about 2 times the shear wave velocity - is the value predicted by theoretical studies in fracture dynamics. We look for clues to explain these observations.

@article{bouchon_etal:2001, abstract = {We report that during the two devastating 1999 earthquakes in Turkey, rupture propagated over a large part of the nearly 200 km long fault zone at supershear speed approaching 5 km/s. We present observations and modeling which confirm the original inference of supershear rupture during the Izmit earthquake and we show that supershear rupture also occurred during the D\"{u}zce earthquake. We show that the rupture velocity measured - about 2 times the shear wave velocity - is the value predicted by theoretical studies in fracture dynamics. We look for clues to explain these observations.}, added-at = {2012-09-01T13:08:21.000+0200}, author = {Bouchon, Michel and Bouin, Marie-Paule and Karabulut, Hayrullah and Toks\"{o}z, M. Nafi and Dietrich, Michel and Rosakis, Ares J.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/26cf53b78d6e106f2f3c765d155eb3cd7/nilsma}, doi = {10.1029/2001GL013112}, interhash = {461e4b5a8b680d80e6a8aa787aee80ff}, intrahash = {6cf53b78d6e106f2f3c765d155eb3cd7}, issn = {0094-8276}, journal = {Geophysical Research Letters}, keywords = {geophysics seismology}, month = jul, number = 14, pages = {2723--2726}, timestamp = {2021-02-09T13:25:06.000+0100}, title = {How fast is rupture during an earthquake? New insights from the 1999 Turkey earthquakes}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2001GL013112}, volume = 28, year = 2001 }