Recurrence time distributions of large earthquakes in a stochastic model for coupled fault systems: The role of fault interaction

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1679-1687

  Zöller, Gert ^a   Hainzl, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; TECTONICS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

BROWNIAN RELAXATION OSCILLATOR; FAULT INTERACTION;

EARTHQUAKES;

NUMERICAL MODEL; RECURRENCE INTERVAL; STOCHASTICITY; WEIBULL THEORY;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 35548976157     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120060262     Document Type: Article

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