Benioff strain release before earthquakes in China: Accelerating or not?

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 163, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1965-1976

  Jiang, Changsheng ^a   Wu, Zhongliang ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Accelerating moment release (AMR); Critical point like model of earthquakes; Earthquake sin China; Intermediate term earthquake prediction

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FOCAL MECHANISM; NUMERICAL MODEL; POWER LAW; SEISMIC MOMENT; SLIP; STRAIN;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 33750301173     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-006-0107-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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