Asperity models for earthquakes

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1792-1802

  Chen, Youlin ^a   Sammis, Charles G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STRESSES;

FAULT PLANE;

SEISMOLOGY;

ASPERITY; EARTHQUAKE; FAULT PLANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMICITY;

CALIFORNIA; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0242274262     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120020173     Document Type: Article

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