Plate-tectonic analysis of shallow seismicity: Apparent boundary width, beta, corner magnitude, coupled lithosphere thickness, and coupling in seven tectonic settings

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2380-2399

  Bird, Peter ^a   Kagan, Yan Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREEP; EARTHQUAKES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TECTONICS; TENSORS;

CENTROID MOMENT TENSOR (CMT); LITHOSPHERE; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLATE-TECTONIC ANALYSIS;

SEISMOLOGY;

CENTROID MOMENT TENSOR; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMICITY;

EID: 14344261878     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120030107     Document Type: Article

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