Properties of the seismic nucleation phase

Tectonophysics

Volumn 261, Issue 1-3 SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 209-227

  Beroza, Gregory C ^a   Ellsworth, William L ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; SEISMIC NUCLEATION PHASE;

EID: 0030434934     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(96)00067-4     Document Type: Article

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