Do historical rates of seismicity in southern California require the occurrence of earthquake magnitudes greater than would be predicted from fault length?

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1662-1666

  Stirling, Mark W ^a   Wesnousky, Steven G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; FAULT LENGTH; FREQUENCY/MAGNITUDE; SEISMICITY;

USA, CALIFORNIA;

EID: 0031448697     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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