Earthquake probabilities and energy characteristics of seismicity offshore southwest Taiwan

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 697-703

  Chen, Po Fei ^a   Newman, Andrew V ^b   Wu, Tso Ren ^a   Lin, Ching Ching ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake probability; Gutenberg Richter relation; Taiwan seismicity; Tsunami earthquake

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; FAULTING; LOW VELOCITY ZONE; NORMAL FAULT; PROBABILITY; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMICITY; SLAB;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; PINGTUNG; TAIWAN;

EID: 60249098265     PISSN: 10170839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3319/TAO.2008.19.6.697(PT)     Document Type: Article

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