Seismic energy and stress-drop parameters for a composite source model

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 85-96

  Anderson, John G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE SOURCE MODEL; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE FAULTING; PARAMETERIZATION; SEISMIC ENERGY; SOURCE PARAMETERS; STRESS DROP; STRONG MOTION;

EID: 0031443343     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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