Earthquake clustering in shallow subduction zones: Kamchatka and Mexico

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 97, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 205-218

  Zobin, Vyacheslav M ^a,b  

^a Ctr de Invest Cie/de Educ Sup   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE COLIMA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING; DISTRIBUTION; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKES; SEISMIC ACTIVITY; SEISMICITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

MEXICO; RUSSIAN FEDERATION, KAMCHATKA;

EID: 0030439358     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9201(95)03129-4     Document Type: Article

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