A generalized Omori's law for earthquake aftershock decay

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2004, Pages

  Shcherbakov, Robert ^a   Turcotte, Donald L ^a   Rundle, John B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SEISMOLOGY;

AFTERSHOCK SEQUENCES; OMORI LAW;

GEOPHYSICS;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE; SCALE EFFECT;

EID: 4143123395     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL019808     Document Type: Article

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