Power law distributions of seismic rates

Tectonophysics

Volumn 431, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 7-13

  Saichev, A ^a,b   Sornette, D ^b,c,d  

^a LOBACHEVSKY STATE UNIVERSITY OF NIZHNY NOVGOROD   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

Branching process; Clustering; ETAS model; Fractal sources; Power law; Seismic rates; Triggering

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846521137     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2006.05.026     Document Type: Article

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