How can one test the seismic gap hypothesis? The case of repeated ruptures in the Aleutians

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 155, Issue 2-4, 1999, Pages 259-278

  Wyss, Max ^a   Wiemer, Stefan ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Earthquake prediction; Seismic gap; Seismotectonics

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; SEISMOTECTONICS;

ALASKA; ALEUTIAN ISLANDS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032735678     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000240050265     Document Type: Article

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