Emergence of a band-limited power law in the aftershock decay rate of a slider-block model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2003, Pages

  Narteau, C ^a   Shebalin, P ^b   Hainzl, S ^c   Zoller G ^c   Holschneider, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DEFORMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

AFTERSHOCK DECAY RATE;

SEISMOLOGY;

AFTERSHOCK; FAULT GEOMETRY; GEOMETRY; MODELING; POWER LAW; SEISMIC ZONE; SEISMICITY;

EID: 0041911080     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017110     Document Type: Article

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