Description of earthquake aftershock sequences using prototype point patterns

Environmetrics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 271-286

  Schoenberg, Frederic Paik ^a   Tranbarger, Katherine E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AMHERST COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Distance metrics; Earthquakes; Point processes; Seismology

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; POINT SOURCE; SEISMOLOGY;

EID: 42549106901     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.867     Document Type: Article

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