Magnitude distributions and slip scaling of heterogeneous seismic sources

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 498-504

  Gross, Susanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; FAULT SLIP; MAGNITUDE; RUPTURE PROPAGATION; STRENGTH HETEROGENEITY;

EID: 0030481183     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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