Probabilities for jumping fault segment stepovers

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Shaw, Bruce E ^a   Dieterich, James H ^b  

^a Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY; TECTONICS;

ELASTODYNAMIC RUPTURES; SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS;

SEISMOLOGY;

ELASTODYNAMICS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FAULT; NUMERICAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; RUPTURE; SEGMENTATION; SEISMIC HAZARD; SIMULATION;

EID: 34548030436     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027980     Document Type: Article

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