Earthquake statistics in a Block Slider model and a fully dynamic fault model

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 11, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 553-560

  Weatherley, Dion ^a   Abe, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; FAULTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 12744281021     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-11-553-2004     Document Type: Article

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