On the spatio-temporal distribution of M 7.0+ worldwide seismicity with a non-parametric statistics

Tectonophysics

Volumn 449, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 97-104

  Faenza, Licia ^a   Marzocchi, Warner ^b   Serretti, Paola ^b   Boschi, Enzo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Earthquake spatio temporal distribution; Temporal cluster; World Wide Seismicity

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOSTATISTICS; PROBABILITY; SEISMICITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 39649120318     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.11.066     Document Type: Article

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