Fault trace complexity, cumulative slip, and the shape of the magnitude-frequency distribution for strike-slip faults: A global survey

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 833-868

  Stirling, Mark W ^a   Wesnousky, Steven G ^a   Shimazaki, Kunihiko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

b values; Earthquakes; Fault slip; Strike slip

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC EARTHQUAKE MODEL; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; GLOBAL SURVEY; GUTENBERG- RICHTER METHOD; MAGNITUDE/FREQUENCY; STRIKE SLIP FAULT;

EID: 0029731104     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1996.tb05641.x     Document Type: Article

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