A common origin for aftershocks, foreshocks, and multiplets

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 88-98

  Felzer, Karen R ^a   Abercrombie, Rachel E ^b   Ekström, Göran ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEATION; TECTONICS; TENSORS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

AFTERSHOCKS; CENTROID MOMENT TENSOR (CMT); FORESHOCKS; MULTIPLETS;

SEISMOLOGY;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULT SLIP; FORESHOCK; TRIGGER MECHANISM;

EID: 1842864389     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120030069     Document Type: Article

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