December 26, 2004, off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia, MW=9.0, earthquake and the critical-point-like model of earthquake preparation

Acta Seismologica Sinica English Edition

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 290-296

  Jiang, Chang Sheng ^a   Wu, Zhong Liang ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Accelerating moment release (AMR) before earthquakes; Critical point like model of earthquake preparation; Power law like frequency magnitude distribution; The 2004 off the west coast of northern Sumatra MW=9.0 earthquake

Indexed keywords

EID: 24344431917     PISSN: 10009116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11589-005-0077-x     Document Type: Article

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