Focal mechanism dependence of a few seismic phenomena and its implications for the physics of earthquakes

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 161, Issue 9-10, 2004, Pages 1969-1978

  Wu, Z L ^a,b   Wan, Y G ^b   Zhou, G W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Apparent stress; Coulomb stress triggering; Earthquake clustering; Focal mechanism; Reduced energy

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FOCAL MECHANISM; PHYSICS; SEISMICITY;

EID: 4444263425     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-004-2543-0     Document Type: Article

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