Law for the distance between successive earthquakes

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Abe, Sumiyoshi ^a   Suzuki, Norikazu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Complexity; Distance distribution; Modified Zipf Mandelbrot law; Tsallis statistics

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; MODELING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 18144441168     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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