The static stress change triggering model: Constraints from two southern California aftershock sequences

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 103, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 24427-24437

  Hardebeck, Jeanne L ^a   Nazareth, Julie J ^a   Hauksson, Egill ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; SEISMIC HAZARD; STRESS ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032505849     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98jb00573     Document Type: Article

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