The solution of static elastic deformation of a homogeneous, orthotropic elastic uniform half-space with rigid boundary due to a non-uniform slip along a vertical strike-slip fault of infinite length and finite width has been studied. The results obtained here are the generalisation of the results for an isotropic medium having rigid boundary in the sense that medium of the present work is orthotropic with rigid boundary which is more realistic than isotropic and the results for an isotropic case can be derived from our results. The variations of displacement with distance from the fault due to various slip profiles have been studied to examine the effect of anisotropy on the deformation. Numerically it has been found that for parabolic slip profile, the displacement in magnitude for isotropic elastic medium is greater than that for an orthotropic elastic half-space, but, in case of linear slip, the displacements in magnitude for an orthotropic medium is greater than that for the isotropic medium.

Deformation of a uniform half-space with rigid boundary caused by a long inclined strike-slip fault of finite width is studied analytically and numerically. Closed-form expressions for the displacement and stresses at any point in a homogeneous, isotropic, perfectly elastic half-space with rigid boundary caused by a long inclined strike-slip fault of finite width are derived. The variation of the displacement and stresses at the interface with the distance from the fault and depth from the fault is studied numerically. It is found that the displacement and stress field is heavily dependent on the dip-angle.

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