Numerical modeling of block structure dynamics: Dependence of a synthetic earthquake flow on the structure separateness and boundary movements

Journal of Seismology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 151-160

  Keilis Borok, V I ^a   Rotwain, I M ^a   Soloviev, A A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION THEORY AND MATHEMATICAL GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Block structure dynamics; Boundary movements; Gutenberg Richter law; Structure separateness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000344145     PISSN: 13834649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009717607645     Document Type: Article

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