Earthquake risk from strain rates on slipping faults

Eos

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 60-

  Newman, Andrew ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SLIP; STRAIN RATE;

EID: 33847397911     PISSN: 00963941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007EO050009     Document Type: Article

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