Space-time correlations of seismotectonic parameters: Examples from Japan and from Turkey preceding the İzmit earthquake

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 339-349

  Oncel, Ali Osman ^a   Wilson, Thomas H ^b  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEISMICITY;

CORRELATION METHODS; EARTHQUAKES; HAZARDS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; RISKS; TECTONICS;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; SEISMOTECTONICS; SPATIAL VARIATION; STRESS ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

JAPAN; TURKEY;

EID: 0036477081     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120000844     Document Type: Article

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