Relation between mainshock rupture process and Omori's law for aftershock moment release rate

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 163, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1039-1048

  Kagan, Yan Y ^a   Houston, Heidi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aftershocks; Rupture propagation; Seismic coda; Seismic moment; Seismic event rates; Statistical methods

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; RUPTURE; SEISMIC MOMENT;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745228792     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02772.x     Document Type: Article

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