Smaller source earthquakes and improved measuring techniques allow the largest earthquakes in Iceland to be stress forecast (with hindsight)

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1293-1298

  Wu, Jing ^a   Crampin, Stuart ^a,b   Gao, Yuan ^a   Hao, Ping ^a   Volti, Theodora ^c   Chen, Yun Tai ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extended seismic catalogue; Forecasting earthquakes; Improved measuring technique; Polarizations; Self similarity; Shear wave splitting time delays

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FORECASTING METHOD; S-WAVE; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMICITY;

EID: 33747669537     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03054.x     Document Type: Article

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