Energy structures and nucleation effects in earthquakes

Chaos, solitons and fractals

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 485-493

  Utsumi, T ^a   Aizawa, Y ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SEISMOLOGY; STATISTICS; STRAIN;

ENERGY STRUCTURES; GUTENBERG-RICHTER LAW; NUCLEATION EFFECTS; RUPTURE SIZE;

FRACTALS;

EID: 0034159722     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-0779(98)00177-5     Document Type: Article

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