Regional difference in scaling laws for large earthquakes and its tectonic implication

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 157, Issue 11-12, 2000, Pages 2283-2301

  Fujii, Y ^a   Matsu'ura, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Large earthquake; Plate boundary; Scaling law; Seismic zone; Thermal structure

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; PLATE BOUNDARY; SCALE EFFECT; SEISMOTECTONICS;

EID: 0034470088     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/pl00001085     Document Type: Article

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