Importance of small earthquakes for stress transfers and earthquake triggering

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1-13

  Helmstetter, Agnès ^a,b   Kagan, Yan Y ^c   Jackson, David D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; STRESS ANALYSIS; TRIGGER MECHANISM;

EID: 21844461806     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JB003286     Document Type: Article

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