An empirical model for earthquake probabilities in the San Francisco Bay region, California, 2002-2031

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-13

  Reasenberg, Paul A ^a   Hanks, Thomas C ^a   Bakun, William H ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; EXTRAPOLATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; VISCOELASTICITY;

SEISMIC ACTIVITY;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MODELING; PROBABILITY; SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE 1906; SEISMICITY;

CALIFORNIA; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038693811     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120020014     Document Type: Article

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