Repeating earthquakes as low-stress-drop events at a border etween locked and creeping fault patches

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 532-537

  Sammis, C G ^a   Rice, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; SEISMOLOGY; STRESSES;

SCALAR MOMENT;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; FAULT PLANE; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMICITY; STICK-SLIP;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035359253     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120000075     Document Type: Article

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