Stochastic model of heterogeneity in earthquake slip spatial distributions

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 622-640

  Lavallée, Daniel ^a   Liu, Pengcheng ^a   Archuleta, Ralph J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault slip; Inhomogeneous media; Statistical methods; Stress distribution

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FAULT SLIP; NUMERICAL MODEL; STOCHASTICITY; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

EID: 33646074815     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.02943.x     Document Type: Article

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