Long-Term Clustering, Scaling, and Universality in the Temporal Occurrence of Earthquakes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 10, 2004, Pages

  Corral, Álvaro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ESTIMATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEISMIC WAVES; SHOCK WAVES; TECTONICS;

AFTERSHOCKS; CLUSTERING; SCALING; UNIVERSALITY;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 2142647910     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.108501     Document Type: Article

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