Assessing elastic Coulomb stress transfer models using seismicity rates in southern California and southwestern Japan

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Mallman, Ellen P ^a   Zoback, Mark D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CORRELATION; COULOMB CRITERION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; KOBE EARTHQUAKE 1995; LANDERS EARTHQUAKE 1992; SEISMICITY; STRESS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

ASIA; CALIFORNIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548522665     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JB004076     Document Type: Article

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