Precursory accelerating seismic moment release (AMR) in a synthetic seismicity catalog: A preliminary study

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Robinson, Russell ^a   Zhou, Shiyong ^b   Johnston, Steven ^c   Vere Jones, David ^c  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; GEOMETRY; SEISMOLOGY;

ACCELERATING SEISMIC MOMENT RELEASE (AMR); SYNTHETIC SEISMICITY MODEL;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING; EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR; POWER LAW; SEISMIC MOMENT; SYNTHETIC SEISMOGRAM;

ACCELERATING SEISMIC MOMENT RELEASE; ELASTIC HALF SPACE; LARGE EARTHQUAKES; LINEAR MOMENTS; REAL-WORLD; SEISMIC-MOMENT RELEASE; SYNTHETIC MODELS; SYNTHETIC SEISMICITY MODEL;

EID: 21844443898     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022576     Document Type: Article

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