Displacement rates and average earthquake recurrence intervals on normal faults

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 541-551

  Nicol, A ^a,b   Walsh, John J ^a   Manzocchi, T ^a   Morewood, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Earthquake recurrence intervals; Fault displacement rates; Strain rates

Indexed keywords

BASIN WIDE; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; FAULT DISPLACEMENT RATES; RECURRENCE INTERVALS;

CORRELATION METHODS; DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRAIN; STRESS ANALYSIS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; NORMAL FAULT; SLIP RATE; STRAIN RATE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

EID: 14544274596     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2004.10.009     Document Type: Article

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