Earthquake scaling laws for creeping and non-creeping faults

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 507-510

  Amelung, Falk ^a,b,d   King, Geoffrey ^a,c  

^a UMR 7063   (France)

^b HASYLAB   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^d GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SEISMIC WAVES; TECTONICS; EARTHQUAKES; GEOPHYSICS;

ASEISMIC CREEP; B VALUE ANALYSIS; CREEPING FAULTS; EARTHQUAKE SCALING LAWS; NON CREEPING FAULTS; SIZE FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION;

EARTHQUAKES; FAULTING;

CREEP; CREEPING; CREEPING FAULT; EARTHQUAKE SCALING; FAULT; NON-CREEPING FAULT; SEISMIC; SEISMOGENIC CRUST;

CREEPING FAULTS; FAULT DIMENSION; FAULT LENGTH; VOLCANIC REGION;

EID: 0031105754     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00287     Document Type: Article

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