Earthquake simulation by restricted random walks

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2079-2089

  Ward, Steven N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACKS; HAZARDS; RANDOM PROCESSES; ROUGHNESS MEASUREMENT;

EARTHQUAKE SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE SLIP DISTRIBUTION; FAULT LENGTH; RANDOM WALKS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE; FAULT SLIP; NUMERICAL MODEL; RANDOM WALK METHOD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 14344257515     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120040049     Document Type: Article

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