Recurrent large earthquakes in a fault region: What can be inferred from small and intermediate events?

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2641-2651

  Zoller G ^a   Hainzl, S ^b   Holschneider, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT;

A COEFFICIENTS; ASYMPTOTIC LIMITS; B VALUES; BROWNIAN MOTION WITH DRIFTS; CALIFORNIA; CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREMS; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGS; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDES; FAILURE RATES; FAULT MODELS; FAULT ZONES; FREE PARAMETERS; MEAN FAILURE RATES; PLATE MOTIONS; POWER LAWS; POWER-LAW DISTRIBUTIONS; POWER-LAW STATISTICS; RECURRENCE TIME; RENEWAL MODELS; SAN ANDREAS FAULTS; SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENTS; SEISMIC-MOMENT RELEASE; STANDARD DEVIATIONS; TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; TWO REGIMES;

EARTHQUAKES;

BROWNIAN MOTION; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; FAULT ZONE; LOW VELOCITY ZONE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PLATE MOTION; POWER LAW; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMICITY;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SAN ANDREAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 63049110107     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080146     Document Type: Article

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