Distribution of slip along an earthquake fault

Acta Seismologica Sinica

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 489-494

  Wu, Zhongliang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

b value; Earthquake slip; Gutenberg Richter's law

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULT SLIP; SLIP RATE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 12844262263     PISSN: 02533782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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