Do earthquakes exhibit self-organized criticality?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 22, 2004, Pages

  Yang, Xiaosong ^a   Du, Shuming ^b   Ma, Jin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; EARTH (PLANET); EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INTERFEROMETRY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; RADAR; SAND; SATELLITES; SOLAR RADIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGS; FIRST-RETURN-TIME PROBABILITY; RITCHER SCALE; SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY (SOC);

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 3042829451     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.228501     Document Type: Article

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