Distribution of tsunami interevent times

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Geist, Eric L ^a   Parsons, Tom ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; HAZARDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AFTERSHOCKS; HAZARD RATE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; TSUNAMI INTERVENT TIMES;

TSUNAMIS;

MODELING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TSUNAMI EVENT;

HAWAII [(ISL) HAWAIIAN ISLANDS]; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; HILO; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 40849124193     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032690     Document Type: Article

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