Long-term seismogenesis and self-organized criticality

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 749-760

  Evison, Frank ^a   Rhoades, David ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Fractals; Hierarchy; Scaling; Seismogenesis; Self organized criticality

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM;

EID: 20544477836     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03353083     Document Type: Article

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