Spatiotemporal correlations of earthquakes in the continuum limit of the one-dimensional Burridge-Knopoff model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Mori, Takahiro ^a   Kawamura, Hikaru ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUUM DAMAGE MECHANICS; CORRELATION; EARTHQUAKE; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 58549103728     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB005725     Document Type: Article

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