A scaling law for slow earthquakes

Nature

Volumn 447, Issue 7140, 2007, Pages 76-79

  Ide, Satoshi ^a   Beroza, Gregory C ^b   Shelly, David R ^b   Uchide, Takahiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EPISODIC EVENT; SCALE EFFECT; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMIC PROPERTY; SLIP RATE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SUBDUCTION;

ACCELEROMETER; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; EARTHQUAKE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY;

EID: 34247598456     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05780     Document Type: Article

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