Patterns of Historical Earthquake Rupture in the Iranian Plateau

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 120-139

  Berberian, Manuel ^a   Yeats, Robert S ^b  

^a Najarian Associates   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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