Local distributions and rate fluctuations in a unified scaling law for earthquakes

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 3 2, 2003, Pages 351021-351024

  Corral, Álvaro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EARTHQUAKE OCCURRENCE;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 0242663642     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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