Scaling law between corner frequency and seismic moment of microearthquakes: Is the breakdown of the cube law a nature of earthquakes?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2002, Pages

  Hiramatsu, Yoshihiro ^a   Yamanaka, Hiroshi ^a   Tadokoro, Keiichi ^b   Nishigami, Kin'ya ^c   Ohmi, Shiro ^c  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROPS; FREQUENCY BANDS; SEISMOLOGY;

CONSTANT STRESS; CORNER FREQUENCY; DIGITAL WAVEFORMS; HIGH FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; LOCAL MAGNITUDE; MICRO-EARTHQUAKES; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 0037092350     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013894     Document Type: Article

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