Premonitory spreading of seismicity over the fault's network in southern California: Precursor Accord

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 107, Issue 10, 2002, Pages

  Zaliapin, I ^a   Keilis Borok, V ^a   Axen, G ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION THEORY AND MATHEMATICAL GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake prediction; Long range earthquake correlations; Nonlinear dynamics

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR; FAULT GEOMETRY; SEISMICITY; TIMESCALE;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037058188     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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