A review of earthquake statistics: Fault and seismicity-based models, ETAS and BASS

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 165, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1003-1024

  Holliday, James R ^a   Turcotte, Donald L ^a   Rundle, John B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT; LOW VELOCITY ZONE; PROBABILITY; SEISMICITY;

EID: 49249113686     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-008-0344-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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