Migration of seismic scatterers associated with the 1993 Parkfield aseismic transient event

Nature

Volumn 426, Issue 6966, 2003, Pages 544-548

  Niu, Fenglin ^a,b   Silver, Paul G ^b   Nadeau, Robert M ^c   McEvilly, Thomas V ^c  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; SEISMOLOGY;

SEISMIC SCATTERING;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE; FLUID DYNAMICS; FRACTURE FLOW; MICROTREMOR;

ARTICLE; EARTHQUAKE; GEOLOGY; LIQUID; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE; STRESS; TIME;

EID: 0346874332     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02151     Document Type: Article

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