On the frequency distribution of rupture lengths of earthquakes synthesized from a one-dimensional dynamical lattice model

Journal of Physics of the Earth

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 363-381

  Wang, Jeen Hwa ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

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Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; RUPTURE LENGTH;

EID: 0031403111     PISSN: 00223743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4294/jpe1952.45.363     Document Type: Article

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