A Brownian walk model for slow earthquakes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 17, 2008, Pages

  Ide, Satoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKES; RANDOM VARIABLES;

BROWNIAN WALKS; DAMPING COEFFICIENTS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; LANGEVIN EQUATIONS; MOMENT RATES; PLATE BOUNDARIES; SEISMIC MOMENTS; SHEAR SLIPS; SIMPLE MODELS; SLIP RATES; SLOW SLIP EVENTS; SOURCE LOCATIONS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; THREE PARAMETERS;

SEISMOLOGY;

BROWNIAN MOTION; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FAULT; GEODETIC DATUM; KINEMATICS; MODELING; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOLOGY; SLIP RATE; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

EID: 57049107394     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034821     Document Type: Article

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