Scaling properties of the parkfield aftershock sequence

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 96, Issue 4 B, 2006, Pages

  Shcherbakov, Robert ^a   Turcotte, Donald L ^a   Rundle, John B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK SEQUENCE; BATH'S LAW; SEISMIC NETWORK; SHORT WAVELENGTHS;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SEISMIC WAVES; SHOCK WAVES; STATISTICAL METHODS; EARTHQUAKES; SEISMOGRAPHS; STATISTICS;

SEISMOLOGY;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; PARKFIELD EARTHQUAKE 2004; SEISMIC METHOD; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; SEISMICITY;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; PARKFIELD; UNITED STATES;

GUTENBERG-RICHTER FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE SCALING; GUTENBERG-RICHTER SCALING RELATION; OMORI'S LAW;

EID: 33845780658     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120050815     Document Type: Article

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