Improved tests reveal that the accelarating moment release hypothesis is statistically insignificant

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Hardebeck, Jeanne L ^a   Felzer, Karen R ^b   Michael, Andrew J ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR; FORESHOCK; SEISMICITY; SIMULATION;

ASIA; CALIFORNIA; EURASIA; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 55949120258     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JB005410     Document Type: Article

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