Statistical physics approach to understanding the multiscale dynamics of earthquake fault systems

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Rundle, John B ^a,b   Turcotte, Donald L ^a   Shcherbakov, Robert ^a   Klein, William ^c   Sammis, Charles ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical phenomena; Earthquakes; Forecasting; Self organization

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FAULT SLIP; PHYSICS; SEISMICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 1842783415     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003RG000135     Document Type: Article

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