Magnitude distribution complexity revealed in seismicity from Greece

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 111, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Lasocki, Stanislaw ^a   Papadimitriou, Eleftheria E ^b  

^a AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; SEISMICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34547889956     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JB003794     Document Type: Article

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