Variations in earthquake-size distribution across different stress regimes

Nature

Volumn 437, Issue 7058, 2005, Pages 539-542

  Schorlemmer, Danijel ^a   Wiemer, Stefan ^a   Wyss, Max ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b World Agency of Planetary Monitoring and Earthquake Risk Reduction   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MINES; STATISTICAL METHODS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

EARTHQUAKE SIZE DISTRIBUTION; FAULTING EVENTS; STRIKE-SLIP EVENTS;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; STRESS FIELD;

ARTICLE; EARTHQUAKE; LABORATORY; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRESS; VARIANCE;

EID: 27744497966     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04094     Document Type: Article

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