Critical behaviour and the evolution of fault strength during earthquake cycles

Nature

Volumn 388, Issue 6645, 1997, Pages 865-868

  Heimpel, Moritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE SCALING; FAULT STRENGTH; RHEOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER MODEL; EARTHQUAKE; ELASTICITY; FORECASTING; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICS; STRESS;

EID: 0030883287     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/42232     Document Type: Article

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