Delineation of shallow seismic source zones using K-means cluster analysis, with application to the Aegean region

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 565-588

  Weatherill, Graeme ^a   Burton, Paul W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Europe; Persistence, memory, correlations, clustering; Seismicity and tectonics; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 58549095091     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03997.x     Document Type: Article

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