Small Stress Change Triggering a Big Earthquake: A Test of the Critical Point Hypothesis for Earthquakes

Chinese Physics Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1452-1455

  Wan, Yong Ge ^a   Wu, Zhang Liang ^a,b,c   Zhou, Gong Wei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; SHEAR STRESS;

AMBIENTS; COULOMB STRESS; CRITICAL POINT HYPOTHESIS; FOCAL MECHANISM; SMALL STRESS; STRESS CHANGES; STRESS LEVELS; STRESS TRIGGERING; STRIKE-SLIP EARTHQUAKES; TRIGGERING EFFECT;

WATER LEVELS;

EID: 0141456107     PISSN: 0256307X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0256-307X/20/9/312     Document Type: Article

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