Analysis of the relationship between seismic moment and fault length for large crustal strike-slip earthquakes between 1977-92

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 905-908

  Pegler, G ^a,b   Das, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Osney House   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; FAULTING; GEOPHYSICS; SEISMOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TECTONICS; TENSORS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CENTROID MOMENT TENSORS; DATA SET; FAULT LENGTH; NON UNIFORM DATA; SCALING RELATIONS; SEISMIC MOMENT; SPATIAL EXTENT; STRIKE-SLIP EARTHQUAKES;

FAULT SLIPS; SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE; FAULT LENGTH; SCALING RELATION; SEISMIC MOMENT; STRIKE SLIP;

AFTERSHOCKS; CENTROID MOMENT TENSOR ANALYSIS; CRUSTAL STRIKE SLIP EARTHQUAKES; FAULT LENGTH; SCALING RELATION; SEISMIC MOMENT;

EID: 0029666554     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL00963     Document Type: Article

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